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Esquimau in His Water-Proof Canoe

can enter, puts on his water-proof mittens strokes of the long double paddle, the sea and takes hold of his double paddle by may dash over him with impunity. He the middle, and looks almost a part of the rides buoyantly on the surface of the "kayak." This craft is often ornamented waves, often with a seal fastened at each with knobs of norwhal or walrus ivory at side. If the spray, freezing on the sides the ends, and sheathed with runners of of the canoe incommodes him, he scrapes bone beneath, while the paddle has on it off with a blunt bone knife he carries each end a point of ivory or bone. The in the straps in front of him. whole is one of the lightest and most He can even overturn the canoe and elegant of contrivances. In strap in front right it again; but not unfrequently the ice cuts holes in it, when the fate of the it on his head, until he can again launch buttoned-in kayaker is death by drowning. it in open water. On the shores of If he comes to a "neck" of ice between Behring Strait some of the canoes are two spaces of open water, he forces the made with two holes, and are paddled by canoe on the ice, gets out of it, and carries two people.