In winter they usually keep to one place, living in houses of stone, or snow, but in summer they wander about with their boats and tents of hides to the best places for kayak fishing.
It may be derived from the kayak paddles of the Greenland Eskimo, which at a distance look like poles being swung, with or against the sun according to the side they are seen from.
The central point of the Eskimo culture is their seal-hunting, especially with the harpoon, sometimes from the kayakin open water and sometimes from the ice.
Their means of transport were the kayak and the women's boat in open water, and the dog-sledge on the ice.
The kayak is propelled like a canoe by a double-bladed paddle.
Farnum realized that, with the skin kayak belonging to MacDonald now drawn safely out of sight among the bushes, beside their own canoes, Dick and Art would not have the same indications pointing to the island that had he on arrival.
The largest of the canoes, together with MacDonald's kayak were dragged back through the underbrush and carried across the island to be launched on the other side.
But he saw something more--a skin kayak drawn up on the shore of the island.
MacDonald's skin kayak was to be towed behind, containing his slender outfit, and one of the prisoners could carry the whole business alone at portages.
Then a figure stepped from the trees to the little stretch of sand upon which the kayak was drawn up and stood, watching their approach, hand shading eyes against the glare of the sun, head bare.
They had not been gone long when they saw a man in a kayak following them.
As at this season the methods of catching all kinds of seal and walrus are almost identical, I shall describe them together; and, first, the most important part of the hunting gear, the kayak and its belongings.
If a kayak capsizes and the boatman is drowned Kalopaling puts him into this hood.
On Davis Strait they throw a piece of seal's blubber on their husband's kayak when he is about to go hunting (Kumlien, p.
The last implement in the kayak gear to be described is the bird spear, nuirn (Fig.
The model of a Repulse Bay kayak is represented in Fig.
But he had scarcely taken a short glimpse when the kayak began to swing violently and he felt that it became a backbone again.
Once upon a time a young Tuniq had taken the kayak of a young Inung without asking him and had injured it by knocking in the bottom.
When I first visited the tribes of Davis Strait no kayak was to be found between Cape Mercy and Cape Raper, nor had there been any for several years.
The backbone will turn into a kayak and carry you safely to the island.
In winter the kayakis placed upon them in order to prevent it from being covered by snowdrifts or from being torn and destroyed by the dogs.
He hastened to his kayak without once stopping to look behind and paddled away.
Those which are intended for kayak covers, boots, mittens, quivers, &c.
Skins of salmon are used for water proof bags; intestines of seals, particularly those of ground seals, are carefully dried and after being sewed together are used for sails, windows, and kayak jackets.
The kayak (qajaq) is almost exclusively used for hunting by all Eskimo tribes from Greenland to Alaska.
For a number of yearsKayak was the base of operation for oil companies.
Dall claims that the one-holed boat was called a kayak by the natives, and by the Russians a bidarka; and that the others were simply known as two or three holed bidarkas.
It is now known as Kayak Island, but the mountain retains the original name.
Several landings were made on the two Kayak Islands, and on various smaller ones.
Since the recent upspringing of a new town at Katalla, the centre of trade has been transferred from Kayak to this point.
At any moment an infuriated animal is liable to rise from the sea immediately beneath a kayak and upturn it.
He knew it might upset Ootah's kayak and cause him to be drowned.
With dexterous movements of the paddle, Ootah playfully moved his kayak among the herd, in one hand his harpoon ready to strike.
With a terrific jerk of the body, he gave a backward pull--the walrus rose on the water, the kayak was freed of the tusk and slipped away.
He was about to shout when he heard the sound of kayak paddles behind him.
Maisanguaq saw Ootah struggle to release himself; then he saw the kayak tilt as the hunter was drawn, by the mighty impetus of the plunging sea-horse, into the water.
Ootah carried off honors in the muscle-tapping and finger-pulling matches; he out-distanced all rivals in kayak races on the sea; he left everyone behind on perilous journeys to the inland mountains.
A great monster had risen by his kayak and fastened one of its tusks in the skin covering the boat from gunwale to gunwale.
Shaking the water from him, he bade the others tow his kayak to the floe.
Ootah paddled his kayak to the side of his companion's and, leaning forward, with a quick movement, threw a lasso over the animal's nose and under one tusk.
With a slow silent movement of the paddle, he prevented his kayak from going too great a distance forward in order to await the others.
Taking up the leather floats one by one, to the rear kayak of each series the hunters fastened the harpoon lines which secured the prey.
His kayak made a dark blurred line as it sped forward over the yellow waters.
While he retarded the kayak and played with his paddle, Ootah became conscious of disquieting things in the world about him.
Both the kayak and oomiak are still in every-day use, and it is to be hoped the boats of the white man will never wholly replace them.
The women, to whom the use of the kayak was not intrusted, were better proportioned than the men, and many of them are pleasing in appearance.
Here he ran his kayak into a little creek, and, having lifted it beyond tide mark, betook himself to his dwelling.
I saw them at the rapid water in Caniapuscaw, and I took kayakto bring the news.
The long, thin, sharp Esquimau kayak is highly suggestive of an arrow in its form, and much more so in its extraordinary speed.
Like the kayak it is made of skin, but has no covering above, and is propelled by means of short single-bladed paddles, which are worked by the women, upon whom devolves the entire care and management of the oomiak.
So here we lie, with all our worldly goods spread out to dry and a kayak that must be mended before we can face the walrus again.
Our two kayak sledges have undoubtedly become somewhat heavier, but then we shall have six dogs to each as long as they last.
It took hold of the kayak once more and tilted me up, so that the deck was almost under water, then let go, and raised itself right up.
Two pair kayak gloves and one harpoon and line 1 5 0.
When I at last got back to the sledges I felt rather slack; Johansen was sitting on the kayak fast asleep, basking in the sun.
To rip off the cover of mykayak and get it into the tent to patch it was the work of a very short time, and then we spent a comfortable, quiet Whitsunday evening in the tent.
We work in an intermittent way at the kayak grips of wood for our sledges, and at calking and painting our kayaks to make them water-tight.
Johansen came along the edge of the ice, jumped into the kayak beside me, and we soon got back to our place, I was undeniably a good deal exhausted, and could barely manage to crawl on land.
Meanwhile Johansen had struggled to his legs, and when I fired had got his gun, which was sticking out of the kayak hole.
The men deftly fashion the frames of kayak and oomiak, using in their construction not a single nail or piece of iron, but fastening the wood together by pegs and thongs of skin.
On the rocks they sat, waiting for the new steamer to make her landing, and much excited were they over the iron bowels of this puffing kayak of the white men.
You can just bet we will; yourkayak is strong enough to take us all, isn't it?
The kayak was strong enough to carry them, and Docak could make the voyage in a couple of days.
Fred followed as the kayak turned sideways, so as to permit all to step out, but Jack paused, opposite the native, and peered into his face.
We were nearer the mainland than we dared hope, and he came out in his kayak and took us off.
Before Rob could guess its meaning something grated against the front of the kayak and slid along the side, followed by another and another.
In a few seconds the kayak was alongside the canoe and the boy stepped out upon the shore.
When the firing ceased and the flotilla was well out of range, Gartok laid down his paddle and bound up his wounded limb with some scraps of seal-skin; at the same time, hailing the kayak nearest to him.
The men, therefore, lifted him also out of his kayak and laid him beside his lieutenant.
Did not Cheenbuk forbid every one to go near the big kayak while the men were away?
She lost her balance, and next moment was in the water with the kayak bottom up, and she incapable of extricating herself from the hole into which she had squeezed.
It happened that Anteek and Nootka had observed what Adolay was about, and were watching her with interest, so that before the kayak had turned fairly over their paddles dipped with a flash in the water and they rushed to the rescue.
With this intent she floated the kayak and pushed it alongside of a flat stone in the water from which she could step into it.
The kayak of Cheenbuk was about half a length behind the canoe, else the Eskimo would have seen that though the Indian's voice was low and calm, his black eyes glittered with excitement.
Having received his orders he stepped into his kayak and paddled off into the stream, against which he made but slow progress, however, for the river happened to be considerably swollen at the time.
When you were out of sight I carried my kayak over the neck of land, and so got here before you.
But, instead, he replaced him gently on his feet, and, with a benignant smile, told him to run down to the shore and put his kayak in the water so as to be ready for him.
And not a moment too soon, for the poor girl's power of endurance was almost exhausted when her friends turned the kayak violently up.
Running his kayak among the rushes of a small inlet, Cheenbuk stepped out of the hole in its centre into the stream.
It ended by his not coming up again, losing his paddle, remaining head downward in the water, and beating about with his hands till the kayak filled, and he got a cold bath from top to toe.
Our sailmakers, Sverdrup and Amundsen, have to-day finished covering the first doublekayak with sail-cloth.
After having been out in the kayak and boat and shot some seals, we went on to anchor in a bay that lay rather farther south, where it seemed as if there would be a little shelter in case of a storm.
In addition toKayak Island, he was able to go ashore only on Nagai Island, first with a water party on 30 August and again the next day.
Common Murre (Uria aalge) The common murre is resident in the northern and western Gulf of Alaska from Pinnacle Rock, Kayak Island, westward.
Steller was an accomplished naturalist, but his overbearing and superior manner had apparently sorely irritated Bering and his officers long before the expedition reachedKayak Island.
As he had no kayak he stood on shore, winding the end of the harpoon string around his body, and taking a firm footing so he could hold the whale until it quieted down and died.
There the man would be eaten by the young thunderbirds, and the kayak would lie bleaching among the bones and other refuse scattered along the border of the nest.
If the man tries to escape by getting out of his kayak upon the ice and running away, it will dart underneath and break the ice under his feet.
Kiv-i-ung, who had never abused the boy, had gone out with the rest, but his kayak did not capsize.
Or, again, they would circle out with a noise like thunder from their shaking wings, and drop down upon a fisherman in his kayakon the river, carrying man and boat to the top of the mountain.
One summer day he got into his kayak and rowed up the river hoping to find other human beings.
This is a fierce animal, living in the sea, which wraps its arms around a man or a kayak and pulls them into the water.
I have enjoyed the trip, but how is one to get out of a kayak like this?
His jacket has an enormous hood which is an object of fear to the Inuit, for if a kayak upsets and the boatman is drowned, Ka-lo-pa-ling grabs him and puts him into the hood.
Without stopping to look behind, he ran to his kayak and paddled away.
Nansen was congratulating himself on his fortunate escape, when he noticed his legs getting wet, and he had only time to run the kayak on a sunken ledge of ice when it sank.
Nansen tried to seize his gun, but his kayak slipped into the water, and it took some little time to pull it out again and to reach the gun, which was in its case on the fore-deck.
At Godthaab, on the way home, some of the kayakers of the place treated them to an exhibition of aquatic feats, such as turning a somersault in the water and jumping one kayak over another.
Nansen struck at its head with the paddle, while it in turn struck at the kayak with its tusks.
A kayak was repaired, and Cardenti was sent in it across the channel.
In the evening they felt their legs stiff with sitting in the kayak all day, and they landed on the edge of the ice so that they might stretch them a little.
Not long afterwards, Johansen’s kayak received a violent shock from another walrus, which was shot dead through the forehead by Nansen.
The Kayakof the Greenlander is the frailest specimen of marine architecture that ever carried human freight.
Nansen meanwhile was holding on to the seal, but had to let go and assist in preventing the kayak from sinking.
He crossed one lead, dragged his kayak across the ice, and entered a second.
A stop was made at Upernavik, where Peary expected to obtain a kayak and a native interpreter, but failed to get either.
In the afternoon they reached three huts, and in one of them was a kayak containing something like sawdust.
The kayak was probably cut when being dragged over the ice.
Long, who was looking on, saw Jens suddenly begin to paddle rapidly, and the next moment the kayak began to sink.
When the damaged kayak was taken out of the water, the injury was found to be more extensive than at first supposed.
For days they had sought a way round it, but, failing, the leader had despatched the man in the kayak to reach the watch party, and summon assistance of a boat to convey the remainder over the channel.
The kayakis a long narrow canoe, entirely covered in with a waterproof covering.
The kayak is thus made as buoyant as a life-belt, whether floating on an even keel or upside down.
The first detachment might, he suggested, have been carried away to the east, and, as they had no kayak with them, they might have been cut off by an open channel and so prevented from reaching the island.
It reared high out of the water, towering over the kayak and its occupant, and only by the quickest of manoeuvres was Nansen able to avoid having it fall upon him.
Eskimo Jens, who hunted assiduously, succeeded in killing a small seal; but in a chase after another his kayak was injured in the ice and he was drowned.
Now the situation was this: The kayak was within ten paces of the entrance to the hut, and the loaded guns, which can never be kept in an Esquimo hut on account of the moisture, were in and leaning against the kayak.
It was a half mile off, and the kayak was as far away in another direction.
The kayakwas at hand, but it had to be carried a mile.
Fortunately the kayak was at hand, and the game was bagged.
Captain Tyson followed, slipped softly up to the kayak and seized his gun, but in taking it he knocked down another one and alarmed the bear, who looked up and growled his objections to having his supper disturbed.
It so happened--shall we not the rather say, God so ordered--that a kayak of natives rowed that way.
It was at one of these sleeping-halts on the rocks that Petersen saw one of the natives, whom he recognized as an old acquaintance; he was in his kayak seeking eider-down among the rocks.
As the thin new ice would not bear a man, Tyson solved the difficulty by putting Hans in his kayakand pushing him forward as far as could be done.
Scattered around werekayak frames and their bone mountings, hunting and other implements.
Striking down the first kayak with his enormous tusks, the infuriated animal ploughed through the miniature fleet, capsizing and breaking up the four tiny crafts and drowning the unfortunate hunters.
Fitted with his spear the Eskimo carries his kayak to the remote lake where the birds feed.
He is very skilful, and now, at twelve years of age, he can make the kayak skim over the water like the wind.
Over they went, man and boat, and only the keel of the kayak could be seen.
She worked with her coarse bone needle, and the sinews of seal and deer were the only thread; yet when the kayak was finished, not a single drop of water could enter.
When Etu's kayak was finished, his mother invited the workers up to the house, where they were treated to a dish of seal-blood soup and a pipe of tobacco.
When passing Godhaven, the pilot was launched off our deck in his little kayak without stopping the ship!
Christian came back a few days ago, like a true seal-hunter, carrying his kayak on his head, and dragging a seal behind him.
The high sloping bow rose above the middle of the stationary kayak on which it impinged, and, shooting up quite out of water, the boat skimmed over.
Kayak and rower become to the eye one creature; and the civilized spectator must be stronger than I in his own conceit not to feel a little humble as he looks on.
One of the kayakers placed himself in his little craft directly across the course; another stationed himself at a distance, and then, pushing his kayakforward at his utmost speed, drove it directly over the other!
Of all vehicles, on land or sea, to which man intrusts himself, the kayak is safest and unsafest.
I noticed in the entrance hall a Greenland kayak hung from the ceiling.
The man refused to eat, and died in a few days; but the figure in the kayak wears his clothes, et cetera.
Among other accidents, a boy of thirteen, strong and well, was coming home from his father's kayak to his mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kayak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
