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Rh gros Mitakes, when the Events don't anwer their fale Predictions, as commonly happens; yet, for all that, they are in great Honour and Eteem among this tupid and ignorant Nation; inomuch that no Body ever dare refue the trictet Obedience to what they command him in the Name of Torngaruk, fearing that, in Cafe of Diobedience, ome great Affliction and Misfortune may happen to him. Among many other Fibs, and mot impudent Lyes, they make alo thee illy tupid Wretches believe, that they can, with Hands and Feet tied, mount up to Heaven, and ee how Matters tand there; and likewie decend to Hell, or the lower Regions of the Earth, where the fierce Torngaruk keeps his Court. A young Angekkok mut not undertake this Journey but in the Fall of the Year, by Reaon, that then the lowermot Heaven, which they take the Rainbow to be, is nearet to the Earth.

The Farce or Impoture is thus acted: A Number of Spectators aemble in the