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200 live Seals are put to be boiled; and at lat they arrive with much ado at the Reidence of the Devil's Grandame, where the familiar Spirit takes the Angekkok by the Hand through the trong Guard of Sea Dogs. The Entry is large enough, the Road that leads is as narrow as a mall Rope, and on both Sides nothing to lay hold on, or to upport one; beides that, there is underneath a mot frightful Abys or bottomles Pit. Within this is the Apartment of the infernal Goddes, who offended at this unexpected Viit, hews a mot ghatly and wrathful Countenance, pulling the Hair off her Head: She thereupon eizes a wet Wing of a Fowl, which he lights in the Fire, and claps to their Noes, which makes them very faint and ick, and they become her Prioners. But the Enchanter or Angekkok, (being intructed by his Torngak, how to act his Part in this dimal Expedition) takes hold of her by the Hair, and drubs and bangs her o long, till he loes her Strength and yields; and in this Combat his familiar Spirit does not tand idle, but lays about her with Might and Main.