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Rh whence the Angekuts receive their Torngak, or familiar Spirits. For every Angekkok has a Torngak, who attends him, after he has ten time conjured in the Dark.

Some have their own deceaed Parents for their Torngak, and others get theirs out of ome of our Nation, who they ay dicharge their when they wait before the Entry of the Place, where the Angekkok performs his Conjuration. Whether Torngak and Torngaruk be one and the ame Thing, I hall not decide; but certain it is, that one is derived from the other. From Torngaruk the Angekuts pretend they learn the Art of Conjuring; which they are taught in this Method. If one apires to the Office of an Angekkok, and has a Mind to be initiated into thee Myteries, he mut retire from the ret of Mankind, into ome remote Place, from all Com- Rh