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Identifier: ForeststreamXXIX (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ow she stood on her head and kicked and tbenshe wouldrear and try and fall back on top of me. After infinite trouble Igot back to the wharf, but no creature except myself can everrealize what turning tnat infernal tin can meant. I afterward puta 6in. zinc keel on her, and thus steadied I got across the harbor,a distance of about a mile, but I came back in a boat. Severaltimes I came down to look at her, but I never ventured to get intoher again, and she finally broke her nose by catching in the wharf,and the last I heard of her was my father giving her to a boy onthe condition that he took her off the premises. That zinc kayakcost me $11 if I remember aright, but I got fully^50 of excitementout of her. It was a comfort to read in the August Century in an article byA. W. Greely, that This dangerous craft (£. e., tbe kayak) is grad-ually dying out in Greenland, and only the brighter and moreambitious boys aoquire it. Practice must commence at a tender Dec. 32, 1881.) FOREST AND STREAM.
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-t—t SAIL PLAN OF CUTTER PILGRIM. -Designed and Built by E. L. Williams. age (that, of course, explains ray failure, I was too old) and mustbe continued assiduously. G-reely describes the kayak as ashuttle-shaped boat consisting of a wooden framework, which isfastened together generally by sealskin thongs, over which isstretched a covering of tonned sealskin as neatly and tightly asin the sheepskin of a drumhead. The skin covering is so welltanned, and it is so deftly sewn together with sinew thread by theEsquimaux women that no drop of water finds its way throughskin or seam. The use of seal thongs in uniting the stanchionsgives great strength and equal elasticity, allowing with impunitygreat shocks, which would otherwise destroy so frail a structure.The boat is usually some 15ft. long, and from its central pointgently curves upward—from a width of 20in. and a depth of lOin.—to pointed ends. Both prow and stern are carefully armed with athin moulding of walrus ivory, which is a

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