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their Winter Stock. This Fiſh is not agreeable nor reckoned wholeſome, when eaten freſh; beſides they have a nauſeous Smell, but when dried they may paſs. The Natives eat them with a Bit of Fat, or ſouced in Train Oil. And ſo of all other Sorts of Fiſhes, what the Greenlanders cannot conſume being freſh, they dry upon the Rocks in the Sun, or in the Wind, and lay them up for the Winter.
They have two Kinds of Boats, the one for the Men alone, and the other for Men and Women in common. The firſt Sort deſcribed.Now as to the Greenland Boats, there are two Sorts of the; the one, of which the Men alone make Uſe of, is a ſmall Veſſel ſharp and pointed at both Ends, three Fathom in Length, and at moſt but three Quarters of a Yard Broad, with a round Hole in the midſt, juſt large enough for a Man's Body to enter it, and ſit down in it; the Inſide of the Boat is made of thin Rafts tack'd together with the Sinews of Animals, and the Outſide is covered with Seal Skins, dreſſed and without Hair; no more than one can ſit in it, who faſtens it ſo tights about his Waſte, that no Water
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