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Rh their Winter Stock. This Fih is not agreeable nor reckoned wholeome, when eaten freh; beides they have a naueous Smell, but when dried they may pas. The Natives eat them with a Bit of Fat, or ouced in Train Oil. And o of all other Sorts of Fihes, what the Greenlanders cannot conume being freh, they dry upon the Rocks in the Sun, or in the Wind, and lay them up for the Winter.

Now as to the Greenland Boats, there are two Sorts of the; the one, of which the Men alone make Ue of, is a mall Veel harp and pointed at both Ends, three Fathom in Length, and at mot but three Quarters of a Yard Broad, with a round Hole in the midt, jut large enough for a Man's Body to enter it, and it down in it; the Inide of the Boat is made of thin Rafts tack'd together with the Sinews of Animals, and the Outide is covered with Seal Skins, dreed and without Hair; no more than one can it in it, who fatens it o tights about his Wate, that no Water can