. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. AN ESKIMO SOMEKSAULX IN A KYACK. 2S0 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. It is proper to say that only a few can do it, and they never make theattempt unless a friend is present with his hyach to render any neededassistance. I once saw a Greenland Eskimo perforin it. He turned over andover till we thought he did not intend to stop, and felt himself well paidfor the feat with the present of a pocket-knife. One moment he was com-pletely under water and the next above it, and he was so well secured inhis place thatonly his hands and face were wet.
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. AN ESKIMO SOMEKSAULX IN A KYACK. 2S0 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. It is proper to say that only a few can do it, and they never make theattempt unless a friend is present with his hyach to render any neededassistance. I once saw a Greenland Eskimo perforin it. He turned over andover till we thought he did not intend to stop, and felt himself well paidfor the feat with the present of a pocket-knife. One moment he was com-pletely under water and the next above it, and he was so well secured inhis place thatonly his hands and face were wet. The danger of the per-formance lies in the risk of his paddle breaking while he is under water,and also the chance that he may make a false stroke. Another trick they perform is fur a native to run his hijack over an-other without injury to either. This he does by dashing forward at thegreatest speed and passing the bow of his own boat over the centre of hisfriends, just in front of where its owner sits. There is less liability to in-jury to either craft than to t
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