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106 The fourth Way is this: In the Spring, when the Seals lie upon the Ice near Holes, which they themelves make, for to get up and down; the Greenlanders cloathed with and a long Perch in their Hand, creep along upon the Ice, moving their Head forwards and backwards, and noring like a Seal, till they come o near him, that they can reach him with the Perch and trike him. A fifth Manner of catching Seals is, when in the Spring the Current makes large Holes in the Ice, the Seals flock thither in great Shoals; there the Natives watch their Opportunity to trike them with their Harpoons, and haul them upon the Ice. There is yet a ixth Way of catching Seals, when the Ice is not covered with Snow, but clear and tranparent; then the Catchers lay under their Feet Foxes or Dogs Tails, or a Piece of a Bear's Hide, to tand upon and watch the Animal, and when by his blowing and noring they find what Coure he takes, they oftly follow him and trike him. In