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For two decades, Dyson, a self-taught boatbuilder, has worked to rediscover the technological secrets of these fabled vessels, or baidarkas, as Russian colonists called them.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition we took along an otter boat, a large rowboat, from here, as our baidarkas proved rather unseaworthy.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

Here we left the baidarkas and crossed a large meadow without sighting bear.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

We made a most exciting approach in our baidarkas, winding in and out, across the open, up a small lagoon which cut into the meadow where the bears were feeding.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

Each schooner carries thirty or forty baidarkas and twice as many men.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various