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Rh o large, that they may get him up through it, and as oon as they have got his Head above the Ice, they can kill him with one Blow of the Fit.

A third Way of catching Seals is this. They make a great Hole in the Ice, or, in the Spring, they find out Holes made by the Seals, through which they get upon the Ice to lie and bak themelves in the Sun. Near to thee Holes they place a low Bench, upon which they lie own upon their Belly, having firt made a mall Hole near the large one, through which they let oftly down a Perch, 16 or 20 Yards long, headed with a Harpoon, a Strap being fatened to it, which one holds in his Hand, while another (for there mut be two employed in this Sort of Capture) who lies upon the Bench with his Face downwards, watches the coming of the Seal, which when he perceives, he cries Kæ; whereupon he, who holds the Pole, puhes and trikes the Seal. The