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102 They are more frequently employed at Sea than on Shore; and I confes, they urpas therein mot other Nations; for their Way of taking Whales, Seals and other Sea Animals is by far the mot kilfull and mot eay and handy.

When they go a Whale catching, they put on their bet Gear or Apparel, as if they were going to a fancying that if they did not come cleanly and neatly dreed, the Whale, who can't bear loven and dirty Habits, would hun them and fly from them. This is the Manner of their Expedition: About 50 Perons, Men and Women, et out together in one of the large Boats, called Kone Boat; the Women carry along with them their ewing Tackles, coniting of Needles and Thread, for to ew and mend their Hubands Spring Coats, or Jackets, if they houls be torn or pierced through, as alo to mend the Boat, in cafe it hould receive any Damage; the Men go in earch of the Whale, and when they have found him, they trike him with their Har-