1. The Greenlander lays himself first on one side, then on the other, with his body flat upon the water, (to imitate the case of one who is nearly, but not quite overset) and keeps the balance with his _pautik_ or oar, so that he raises himself again. 2. He overturns himself quite, so that his head hangs perpendicular underwater; in this dreadful posture he gives himself a swing with a stroke of his paddle, and raises himself aloft again on which side he will. These are the most common cases of misfortune, which frequently occur in storms and high waves; but they still suppose that the Greenlander retains the advantage of his _pautik_ in his hand, and is disentangled from the seal-leather strap. But it may easily happen in the seal-fishery, that the man becomes entangled with the string, so that he either cannot rightly use the _pautik_, or that he loses it entirely. Therefore they must be prepared for this casualty. With this view 3. They run one end of the _pautik_ under one of the cross-strings of the kajak, (to imitate its being entangled) overset, and scrabble up again by means of the artful motion of the other end of the _pautik_. 4. They hold one end of it in their mouth, and yet move the other end with their hand, so as to rear themselves upright again. 5. They lay the _pautik_ behind their neck, and hold it there with both hands, or, 6. Hold it fast behind their back; so overturn, and by stirring it with both their hands behind them, without bringing it before, rise and recover. 7. They lay it across one shoulder, take hold of it with one hand before, and the other behind their back, and thus emerge from the deep. These exercises are of service in cases where the _pautik_ is entangled with the string; but because they may also quite lose it, in which the greatest danger lies, therefore, 8. Another exercise is, to run the _pautik_ through the water under the kajak, hold it fast on both sides with their face lying on the kajak, in this position overturn, and rise again by moving the oar _secundum artem_ on the top of the water from beneath. This is of service when they lose the oar during the oversetting, and yet see it swimming over them, to learn to manage it with both hands from below. 9. They let the oar go, turn themselves head down, reach their hand after it, and from the surface pull it down to them, and so rebound up. 10. But if they can't possibly reach it, they take either the hand-board off from the harpoon, or a knife, and try by the force of these, or even splashing the water with the palm of their hand, to swing themselves above water; but this seldom succeeds. [Illustration: Figure 214 THE STANDARD GREENLAND ROLL