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134 viion) as Whales, Seals, Hares, and Rypes, or white Partridges, and all orts of Sea Fowls. They eat their Fleh Meat ometimes raw, ometimes boiled, or dried in the Sun or Wind; but their Fih Meat is always thoroughly done, or eat them dried in the Sun or Air, as Salmon,  Holybut, or the mall Stints, which, in the Months of May and June, they catch in great Abundance, and keep them cured and dried for Winter Proviions. And whereas, in the Winter Seaon, it is very rare to get Seals, except in the mot northern Parts, where they take them upon the Ice; o they make all the Proviion of them, they can get, in the Fall, and bury them under the Snow, until the Winter comes on, when they dig them up, and eat them raw and frozen as they are. Their Drink is nothing but Water, and not, as ome Writers have wrongly pretended, Train Oil; for they do not o much as eat the Fat, but only in Sauces to their dried Fih. Further-