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Rh Arngrim Jonass Hitory of Greenland; as alo Ivarus Benis Relation mentioned by Undalinus. Tame or dometik Animals there are none, but Dogs in great Numbers, and of a large Size, with white Hairs, or white and black, and tanding Ears. They are, in their kind, as timorous and tupid as their Maters, for they never bay or bark, but howl only. In the northern Parts they ue them intead of Hores, to darg their Sledges, tying four or ix, and ometimes eight or ten to a Sledge, loaden with five or ix of the larget Seals, with the Mater etting up himelf, who drives as fat with them, as we can do with good Hores, for they often make 15 German Miles with them, in a Winter Day, upon the Ice: And though the poor Dogs are of o great Service to them, yet they don't ue them well, for they are left to provide for, and ubmit themelves, as wild Beats, feeding upon Mucles thrown up on the or upon Berries in the Summer Seaon; and when there has been a great Capture of Seals, they give them their Blood boil'd and their Entrails. 2