ESKIMOS AT HOME AND AT WORK 67 



often hunt their seals with shot instead of har- 

 poon. 



The Eskimo can brave any sea and any weather 

 in his kayak. Should he capsize he can right him- 

 self again with a stroke or so of his paddle, or even 

 without his paddle, with his open hand, and some- 

 times even with his closed fist. Indeed, his dex- 

 terity is so great and his confidence so complete, 

 that not infrequently, when he sees a heavy sea 

 coming, he will deliberately capsize so that he may 

 receive the force of the breaking water on the bottom 

 of his vessel, and then right himself when the crisis 

 is past. 



