A KAYACK. 
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their part to the varied and peculiar flora of the Arc- 
tic regions. 
The entrance to the anchorage from the southwest 
is between two islands, and the harbor, which is com- 
pletely sheltered from ice, is formed, as will be seen 
from the sketch, by the conjunction of a third. On 
turning the corner, we suddenly came upon a wood- 
en store-house for oil and skins ; and opposite to it, 
a clumsy-looking collier, moored stem and stern by 
hawsers leading to rocks on either side of the channel. 
Soon after, we were boarded by Lieutenant Power, of 
the British navy, and from him we learned that the 
clumsy craft was the Emma Eugenia, a provision 
transport chartered by the Admiralty, and that in less 
than a week she would take our letters to England, 
We learned, too, that the British relief squadron 
under Commodore Austin had sailed the day before 
for the regions of search. They had left England on 
the 6th of May, or seventeen days before our own de- 
parture from New York. 
While we were standing upon deck, waiting for 
the boat to be manned which was to take us to the 
shore, something like a large Newfoundland dog was 
seen moving rapidly through the water. As it ap- 
proached, we could see a horn-like prolongation bulg- 
ing from its chest, and every now and then a queer 
movement, as of two flapping wings, which, acting 
alternately on either side, seemed to urge it through 
the water. Almost immediately it was alongside of 
us, and then we realized what was the much talked- 
of kayack of the Greenlanders. 
It was a canoe-shaped frame-work, carefully and, em 
tirely covered with tensely-stretched seal-skins, beau- 
tiful in model, and graceful as the nautilus, to which 
