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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Is Alizay a squaw?" asked the insulted brave angrily. Magadar thought it wise to make no answer to this question, and in a few seconds more the kayaks doubled round a point that jutted into the stream and were hid from view. But the two bullets had not missed their billets. One the first fired had dropped into Gartok's canoe and buried itself in his left thigh.
"My countrymen have left the island," said Chingatok when he came up. "And taken the kayaks with them?" asked Captain Vane anxiously. "Every one," replied the giant. This was depressing news to the Captain, who had counted much on making use of the Eskimo canoes in the event of his own appliances failing. "Where have they gone, think you?" he asked.
Then we will drive to the place where we have left our kayaks and oomiaks, some of us will go to Waruskeek, and some to pay a visit to the Fire-spouters at Whale River. Give me another lump, Nootka. The last was a little one, and I am hungry." The grandeur of Cheenbuk's plan, as compared with Aglootook's suggestion, was so great that the poor magician collapsed. Anteek looked at him.
I admit that the captain, or one of his men, has profited by the darkness, the fog, or anything you like, in order to slip on board; we are not very far from land; there are Esquimaux kayaks that pass unperceived between the icebergs; someone may have come on board and left the letter; the fog was intense enough to favour their design."
Despite their remonstrances, the party landed, and the Eskimos hurried over the rocks to that part of the island where they had left their kayaks and women's boats in charge of a party of natives who were resident on the island at the time they passed, and from whom they had borrowed the dogs and sledges with which they had travelled south.
But all similar craft, though looking like canoes afloat, are no more like the true canoes and kayaks in their constructional detail than a bird is like a butterfly. The keel makes all the difference. Everything in naval architecture springs from and is related to the keel.
Then the great brutes were flayed, and their flesh, blubber, and hides carried into the hut. When they brought out the sledges and knives, Nansen thought it might be as well to take the kayaks with them also.
They were in need of the skins for clothing, kayaks and summer tents, and the flesh and blubber for food for themselves and their dogs, and the oil for their stone lamps.
Down it went a third time, and reappeared in quite an opposite direction from that in which it had been looked for. This uncertainty in the movements of the whale was a matter of small moment to the occupiers of the light kayaks, but it told rather heavily on Leo in his clumsier boat.
As they were strolling round Johansen called out, "Hullo, the kayaks are adrift." They ran down. The wind was blowing off the land. Out on the fiord all they possessed in the world was being mercilessly carried away. "Take my watch," cried Nansen, and throwing off a few clothes he jumped into the ice-cold water, and swam after the kayaks.
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