Nowadays sealskins are exchanged for European goods, especially guns, and the Labrador Eskimo have lost much of the art of using their kayaks, the canoes into which they used to bind themselves securely, so that when they turned over in the water it did no harm.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
He runs his kayak alongside that of his friend: he puts his paddle across both boats, and if he cannot bring in both kayaks, with such help as Patuak is able to give, he may even carry Patuak lying across the prow of his own boat.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
They had always been very well pleased with their own white, cold world of whales and seals and kayaks-those canoes in which they are as much at home as the fish in the sea.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo