Bidarka

(First published in Ainslee's Magazine, Aug, 1902) A bidarka, is it not so? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bidarka is a frail, narrow framework over which is stretched walrus skin, and it is so fashioned that the crew sits, one behind the other, in circular openings with legs straight out in front. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two of the men hoisted the bidarka on their shoulders and carried it up to the fire. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Except when wide yaws took it off its course, a bidarka was heading in for the beach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Koogah, shoving Nam-Bok clear of the beach, tore the shawl from her shoulders and flung it into the bidarka. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Thou wast bidarka-mate with me when we were boys," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the grain of sand is to the bidarka, as the bidarka is to the schooner, so the schooner is to the steamer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She debated a moment, while the bidarka drifted swiftly from her, then raised her voice to a quavering treble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He pulled from the bidarka a shawl, marvellous of texture and color, and flung it about his mother's shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)