Kesshoo knew he had struck the seal, and although he was already
towing the ice raft, he was determined to bring home the big
seal, too!

He called to Menie. "Sit still and wait until I come for you."

Then he quickly cut the harpoon line by which he was towing the
ice raft, and set it adrift again. As soon as he was free he
paddled away after the bladder, which was now bobbing along over
the water at some little distance from the boat.

Menie sat perfectly still and watched his father. Kesshoo reached
the bladder and began to pull on the line, but just at that
moment the big seal turned round and swam right under the kyak!

In a second the kyak turned bottom side up in the water! Menie
screamed. The people watching on the shore gave a great howl, and
Koko's father started up the beach after his own kyak.

He thought perhaps Kesshoo could not manage both the ice raft and
the seal, and he meant to go to help him.

But in one second Kesshoo was right side up again. No water could
get into the kyak because Kesshoo's skin coat was drawn tight
over the hole in the deck, and Kesshoo was in the coat!

Kesshoo often turned somersaults in the water in that way.
Sometimes he even did it for fun! He said afterward that he could
have turned the boat right side up again with just his nose,
without using either his paddle or his arms, if only his nose had