The double-bladed paddle can be made of a single piece, or two pieces can be joined by a ferrule (Fig.
The double-bladed paddle can be from about 7' to 8' or 9' long and the blades are made broader and shorter than that of the single paddle.
Small boats are propelled by a single broad-bladed paddle; sails also are employed with the crean or keeled canoe.
These rafts are about eighteen feet long and tapering toward both ends; some are large enough to carry four or five men; they are propelled with a double-bladed paddle, held in the middle and worked alternately on both sides.
The kaiyaks are impelled by a double-bladed paddle, used with or without a central rest, and the umiaks with oars.
The native of Norton Sound will twirl his kyak completely over, turn an aquatic somersault, and by the aid of his double-bladed paddle come up safely on the other side, without even losing his seat.
The Indian bark canoes were most efficient watercraft for use in forest travel; they were capable of being propelled easily with a single-bladed paddle.
Shown in the drawing is the type of long-and narrow-bladed paddle used.
No waves can dash into, although they can sweep over it; and if by chance it should upset, the Eskimo can turn it and himself up into the proper position by one dexterous sweep of his long, double-bladed paddle.
The South Sea islanders also use a canoe which they propel with a double-bladed paddle similar to that of the Eskimos.
But when one has acquired by practice a mastery of the kaiak and of the two-bladed paddle, one can get through the water in all sorts of weather at an astonishing speed.
Among the Eskimos on the south-west coast of Alaska the one-bladed paddle is universal; not until we come north of the Yukon River do we find two-bladed paddles, and even there the single blade is still the more common.
It is propelled by a two-bladed paddle, which is held in the middle and dipped in the water on each side in turn, like the paddles we use in canoes.
This is a man sitting in a kaiak in the attitude of paddling on the left side with a single-bladed paddle.
The double-bladed paddle is almost exclusively an Eskimo contrivance.
For ordinary traveling they use a single-bladed paddle (anun), of the same shape as those used in the umiak but usually somewhat smaller, of which we neglected to procure a specimen.
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