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they go and ſeed in Herds, they are dangerous to come at. The Natives ſpend the whole The whole Summer is ſpent in Rain-Deer hunting.Summer Seaſon in hunting of Rain-Deer, going up to the innermoſt Parts of the Bayts, and carrying, for the most part, their Wives and Children along with them, where they remain till the Harveſt Seaſon comes on. In the mean while they with ſo much Eagerneſs hunt, purſue and deſtroy theſe poor Deer, that they have no Place of Safety, but what the Greenlanders know;

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Ice, in queſt of Food, which the main Land, covered with Ice and Snow, does not afford them. The Natives, inſtead of Reaſon, give us a very childiſh A Greenland Tale of Diſco-Island's being towed from South to North.Tale for the vaſt Number of Rain-Deer being found upon Diſo-Iſland, as follows: A mighty Greenlander (one Torngarſuk, as they call him, who is Father to an ugly frightful Woman, who reſides in the lowermoſt Region of the Earth, and has Command over all the Animals of the Sea, as we ſhall ſee hereafter) did, with his Kajar, tow this Iſland to the Place where it now lies, from the South where it was before. Now, as the Face of this Iſland reſembles, very much, the Southern Coaſts, and the Root Angelica is likewiſe found upon it, which grows no where elſe in the neighbourind Parts, this confirms them in their Credulity. And furthermore, they will aſſure, that a Hole is ſeen to this Day in the Iſland, through which the Towing-Rope had been faſtened by Torngarſuk.