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62 and where they are in any Number, there they chae them by etting upon them on all Sides, and urrounding them with all their Women and Children, to force them into Defiles and narrow Paages, where the Men armed lay in wait for them and kill them. And when they have not People enough to urround them, then they put up white Poles (to make up the Number that is wanted) with Pieces of Turf to head them, which frightens the Deer, and hinders it from ecaping. There are alo vat Numbers of Hares, which are white Summer and Winter, very fat and of a good Tate. There are Foxes of different Colours, white, grey and blueih; they are of a leer Size than thoe of Denmark and Norway, and not o hairy, but more like Martens. The Natives commonly catch them alive in Traps, built of Stones like little Huts. The re of fourfooted Animals, which ancient Hitorians tell us are found in Greenland, are Sobles, Marterns, Wolves, Loes, Ermins, and everal others; I have met with none of them on the Wetern Side. See Arn-