Show the kayak dr 1 11 1 hayes in his bis 11 open polar sea bea thus eulogizes the greenland type or of canoe canoa which I 1 have remarked considerable sheer shear and is a otter cotter sea con lout boat than the thol 11 rob lol boys of the librador labrador coast 06 the kayak of the greenland or in ia the tha frailest specimen of marina architecture that over ever carried human freight roi glit it is eighteen toot feet loog long find end as many inches wido wide at its middle and tapers with an upward curving carving line to a point at either end the boat Is ia grandal BI as a danek and light as a feather it lies haa no ballast and nil no beet and it rides riden at must almost on the surface bonifaco of 0 tho the water it Is ia therefore necessarily top heavy LOUR long practice is required to banaga it and no tightrope tight ligh trope rope dancer ever more blend 7 nerve and skill a of f balance than this thia same asi enrage kayaker yet in this rail frail craft ho he doen doca not hesitate to rido ride seas feus which would swamp na ordinary boat or to break through surf which may sweep aarn am over him but bat ho he la Is used n boil to 10 lemd aard i battles aua in spite of 0 every fortune lie keeps himself upright I 1 have been assured by persons familiar Ii wui with arctic cruising that the kayaker does sometimes come coma to grief by the capsizing of his canoe tile skirt of liia his sealskin waterproof shirt being firmly bashel to the combing of the well of ilia kayak he becomes so BO chilled by the cold water anil and exhausted by nia his struggles to freo free himself horn from lis his canoe that d rth th by drowning overtakes overta kea the poor fellow in spite of ill all lis presence of mind still anil skill as long re aa lio be retains ba donilu daubl bladek paddle under water there Is ia a fair chance above of 0 f the kayaker righting himself Lina salt but when u that is lost liis big of getting safely lately to land tire are poor indeed IDren tanos montoy monthly |