At that some of them said "_Tyma_," and others "_Negga-mai_," with a shake of their heads; but when Raed pointed to both the iron and the flannel, undoubling it as he did so, they all cried "_Tyma!_" and one of them (the owner of the _kayak_, as it proved) came forward to take the things.

Raed gave them to him.

A line with a slip-noose was then dropped over the nose of the _kayak_, and it was pulled on board.
In plan it was much like our cedar "shells" used at regattas,--a narrow skiff about twenty-three feet in length by eighteen inches in width.

At the centre there was a small round hole just large enough for one to sit with his legs under the seal-skin deck, which was bound tightly to a hoop encircling the hole.

Indeed, the whole outside of this singular craft was of seal-skins, sewed together and drawn tight as a drum-head over a frame composed mainly of the rib-bones of the walrus.