bidarka

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Look! 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 Nam-Bok was ever clumsy at the paddle," she maundered reminiscently, shading the sun from her eyes and staring across the silver-spilled water.

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  • Our Thlingets, you know, got it from the natives of that section and the story runs that an Aleut and his wife were banished from their village for some crime, set adrift in a bidarka, a skin boat. —  Where the Sun Swings North
  • The small bidarka (skin canoe) is not infrequently used for a casket when the head of the household dies Their simple funeral rites are conducted by members of the deceased's own family, no other member of the tribe coming near the house during the time or attending the obsequies at the grave. —  From Paris to New York by Land
  • Look! 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 Nam-Bok was ever clumsy at the paddle," she maundered reminiscently, shading the sun from her eyes and staring across the silver-spilled water. —  Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews
  • Except when wide yawns took it off its course, a bidarka was heading in for the beach. —  Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews
  • If all the canoes I have ever seen were made into one canoe, it would not be so large There were exclamations of doubt, and Koogah, whose years were many, shook his head 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. —  Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews
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  1. Russian baĭdarka, diminutive of baĭdara, of Siberian origin.
 

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