New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-28

whose knowledge Of cruising yachts measures
has been Of great value in supplying the Nak!rie
with everything needful for the voyage
The rig that has given 10 her for the passage
is called ketch and a good many people VIII WISH
10 know what a keich rig is. In the many dinerent
languages in which this word In varied form ap-
pears it has probably given name to greater
number Of boats and rigs than any other. IL i
practically q certainty that the same worh was III
a different form used by the Phoencians, %ho ap-
rarently traded with the English centuries before
the Roman conquest. II is found first in the orr
entail languages appearing at this day in the Turk
ism 'oaia" tc which give the same pronuncia-
ton in "ca.que." the name of the Turkish rowooat
now In use in great numbers on the Bosphorus.
The word went with emigration and commerce. 10
Italy where we find ''caicco' meaning sort of
little ship: also to France in the word cache
and also in varied form into the old Danish ana
German But II was directly from the old French
.'caiche' that the English word 'ketch' came. be-
ing an attempt 10 spell out the bad pronunciation
which the English have always given TO French
words. Now among the Icelanders and EsquimauA
their name for the boat they hunt seals ana
other animals is "kayak'-unmistakabl ana most
precisely the same word the Turkish "caique
Moreover there is no boat in the world so Ike me
Arctic kayak as Turkish caique, craft that mas
held the shape since time before history
began. II must be remarked that the lcelanaers
did derive their word kayak through any l'dIid
French oounterparts Of II Din the way the Eng
lish derived the same word which now appears 50
different when spelt ketch). but they undoubtedly
got it direct from a people who used the original
word
1t is known that the Phoenicians coasted from the
East along the north shores Of Africa In the Medi-
terrsnean, and out round Spain and France 10 'he
British Isles The writer can also state from per
sonal search that other Mediterranean port pos
sesses craft at all resembling the Bosphorns
caque except the gondola of Venice, which Is d
considerably altered copy Of the caque III IS 'here
Tore likely that the so-caled Phoenclans CAME iio'
the Bosphorus and Black Sea, In which case '"e'
would have the usua. Tartar and Monogram cum.
tenance with its heavy squat nose ana proau cneen
bones The almost universal counterpart OF 'h'S
same face in the Arctic Esqumaux presents an IN
terestlng problem But the shape and name OF a
boat that has been exclusively used by TWO pcop'9
so widely separated leave little room lot "oup'
as 10 who the Arctic folk originally were espea''
~hen the countenances almost speak OF Twin p'o'"
erhood 1t all seems TO point the possibility that
the traders who procured precious In England
70 supply the immense civilizations OF Aslauc LUZ :
Key (which Dr. Schiemann proved to nave e~ls'en
'0' many thousand years before the 'h''9'an .'"'
were driven north by storm and wrecked "heh
'o'eeo 10 remain in desolate regions Ioi "i'' "
SHIPS to return in they built their small hunting
coats OF skins and curved bones not having WOOD
Iaey built them nearly as possible OF 'he SAM
Mape as in their own special locality In the East
'nd called them by precisely the same name
me present widely separated Arctic peoples are
EVIDENTLY OF the same race and the further voyages
" the acclmatized descendants OF the hrst os,a-
ways were doubt made in the small poa's' DO
mat when even the North American Canadian Es-
Sumaux are found so closely connected WIN ."en
ancestors Of the Black Sea- IL must be acknowledged
''A' the world a pretty small world even peioie
stAt ships were built and perhaps before any MS
ofy was written
no excuse will be offered for this WANDERING Oh
~" e'ymology. because the study of the KAYAK u
.iaue Is necessary and certainly not uninteres'hs
~ toward a proper understanding OF the Deie"ue'
-s also OF the Nalkyrie III.
THE KETCH RIG
vuery then; what is a ketch? An erratc iorih Vi
W" rig IN England like this: