Your correspondent, T----N, will find this fact referred to in Sir John
Franklin's _Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea_, vol.
i., p. 268., 2nd edition, London. Murray, 1824. Lieutenant Hood says--
"On our way to the tent a black wolf rushed out upon an Indian, who
happened to pass its den. It was shot, and the Indians carried away
three black whelps, to improve the breed of their dogs."