" "It is bidarka," said Kalitan.

They sit in small hatch with apron all around their bodies, and the bidarka goes over the roughest sea and floats like a bladder.

Big bidarka called an oomiak, and holds whole family.

Was it not the law of life? NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS "A bidarka, is it not so?

a bidarka, and one man who drives clumsily with a paddle!" Old Bask-Wah-Wan rose to her knees, trembling with weakness and eagerness, and gazed out over the sea.

Except when wide yaws took it off its course, a bidarka was heading in for the beach.

The children ran down the beach in advance of her, and as the man in the bidarka drew closer, nearly capsizing with one of his ill-directed strokes, the women followed.

The bidarka turned broadside and the ripple of surf threatened to swamp it, only a naked boy ran into the water and pulled the bow high up on the sand.

This time it was Nam-Bok himself who spoke, putting a leg over the side of the bidarka and standing with one foot afloat and one ashore.

" He pulled from the bidarka a shawl, marvellous of texture and color, and flung it about his mother's shoulders.

" Two of the men hoisted the bidarka on their shoulders and carried it up to the fire.

You all remember the day, when the gulls flew low, and the wind blew strong from the land, and I could not hold my bidarka against it.

I tied the covering of the bidarka about me so that no water could get in, and all of the night I fought with the storm.

"If each bidarka were as a grain of sand," Nam-Bok defiantly continued, "and if there were as many bidarkas as there be grains of sand in this beach, still would they not make so big a canoe as this I saw on the morning of the fourth day.

As the grain of sand is to the bidarka, as the bidarka is to the schooner, so the schooner is to the steamer.

As the grain of sand is to the bidarka, as the bidarka is to the schooner, so the schooner is to the steamer.

"Thou wast bidarka-mate with me when we were boys," he said.

Thy bidarka be ready, and the tribespeople wait.

So he allowed himself to be led down to the water's edge, where he was put aboard his bidarka and a paddle thrust into his hand.

" But Koogah, shoving Nam-Bok clear of the beach, tore the shawl from her shoulders and flung it into the bidarka.

There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him.

Wilt thou come, O Bask-Wah-Wan?" She debated a moment, while the bidarka drifted swiftly from her, then raised her voice to a quavering treble.

NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS "A Bidarka, is it not so!

Except when wide yawns took it off its course, a bidarka was heading in for the beach.

"If each bidarka were as a grain of sand," Nam-Bok defiantly continued, "and if there were as many bidarkas as there be grains of sand in this beach, still would they not make so big a canoe as this I saw on the morning of the fourth day.