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Rh re ide, by whom he gets Information of all he wants to know. And all this is done in the Twinkling of an Eye.

Concerning the Angekkut Poglit, whom we jut now mentioned, as they pas for the Heads of the Clergy, and are reckoned the mot Eminent and Wiet of all, they alo mut pas through the inferior Orders, and everal hard Trials, before they can attain to this high Degree of for none is deemed worthy of uch a Dignity, but he that has made his Noviciatehip in the lower Rank, as an ordinary Angekkok. The Trynal he mut undergo, is this: They tie his Hands and Feet, as aforeaid, and after the Light is put out, and they are all left in Darknes, (that no Body may ee how the Trick is played, and their Impoture be dicovered) then they pretend, that a white Bear enters the Room, takes hold of his great Toe with his Teeth, and dragging him along to the jumps with him into the Sea, where a More is ready, and takes hold of him by his privy Parts, devouring him, to-