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Rh Main. Round the infernal Goddes's Face hangs the Aglerrutit (the Signification of which is to be found in my Son's Journals) which the Angekkok endeavours to rob her of. For this is the Charm, by which he draws all Fihes and Sea Animals to her Dominion, which no ooner is he deprived of, but intantly the Sea Animals in Shoals forake her, and reort with all Speed to their wonted Shelves, where the Greenlanders catch them in great Plenty. When this great Buines is done, the Angekkok with his Torngak proud of Succes makes the bet of their Way home again, where they find the Road mooth, and eay to what it was before.

As to the Souls of the Dead, in their Travel to this happy Country, they meet with a harp pointed Stone, upon which the Angekkuts tell them, they mut lide or glide down upon their Breech, as there's no other Paage to get through, and this Stone is bemeared with Blood; perhaps, by this mytical or hieroglyphical Image, they thereby ignify, the Adverities and Tri- bulations