Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 138
raft, on the ugliest ofvoyages ; but this is an adventure they never shirk,and one that their acquaintance with Europeanshas not changed at all. The kayak is eighteenor twenty feet long, but is so light that it can becarried by the one man who forms the crew. Itis all decked over, excepting a… … HEAD OF THE HOODED SEAL, OB SQUARE-FLIPPER, more difficult for the poor animal to swim away, andalso helping to float the weapon if the hunter misseshis aim. The stout lines are made of seal-hide, orsometimes of braided spruce roots. The hooksmentioned above have wooden or bone shafts, tothe end of…
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