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A few survivors who were hunting in their bidarkas or were in the forest, escaped to the ships of the English and American traders which were in the bay.

From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Andrews, Clarence Leroy

And in this same bay of Drake, long afterward, the Russian fur-poachers rendezvous’d their bidarkas and stole in through the Golden Gate to the forbidden waters of San Francisco Bay.

From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack

During the hunting season they scoured the seas in their skin bidarkas, in the pursuit of fur animals.

From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Andrews, Clarence Leroy

Five hundred and fifty bidarkas, each manned by from two to three Aleut paddlers, came in answer to his call, and with two convoying ships he set sail for Sitka Sound.

From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Andrews, Clarence Leroy

A tannery furnished the leather for shoes, made from California hides, and also prepared the lavtaks for the bidarkas for the seal and sea-otter hunters.

From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Andrews, Clarence Leroy