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Rh Furthermore, they put great Lumps of Ice and Snow into the Water they drink, to make it the cooler for to quench their Thirt. They are, taking them in general, very hoggih and dirty in their eating and dreing of their Victuals; they never wah, cleane, or cour the Kettles, Pots, or Dihes, in which they dres, and out of which they eat their Victuals; which, when dreed, they often lay down upon the dirty Ground, which they walk upon, intead of Tables. They will, with o great an Appetite and Greedines, feed upon the rotten and tinking Seal Fleh, that it turns the Stomach of any hungry Man, who looks upon them. They have no et Time for their Meals, but every one eats when he is hungry, except when they go to Sea, and then their chief Repat is a Supper, after they are come home in the Evening; and he, whoe Supper is firt ready, calls his Neighbours to come and partake of it, as he does again with them reciprocally; and o it goes round from one to another. Rh