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to the women's boats of the Greenlanders. Their food 

 confifts chiefly of raw and dried filh, partly caught at 

 fea with bone hooks, and partly in rivulets, in bagnets 

 made of finews platted together. They call them- 

 felyes Kanagirt, a name that has no fmall refemblance to 

 Karalit; by which appellation, the Greenlanders and Efqui- 

 maux on the coaft of Labradore diftinguiili thcmfelves : 

 the difference between thefe two denominations is occa- 

 fioned perliaps by a change of pronunciation, or by a 

 miftake of the Ruffian failors, who may have given it 

 this variation. Their numbers feem very confiderable 

 on that part of the ifland, where they had their fixed 

 habitations. 



The iflandKadyak* makes,\vith Aghunalaflika, Umnak, 

 and the fmall iflands lying between them, a continued 

 Archipelago, extending N. E. and E. N. E. towards Ame- 

 rica ; it lies by the lliip's reckoning in 230 degrees of 

 longitude ; fo that it cannot be far diftant from that 

 part of the American coait which Beering formerly 

 touched at. 



The large ifland Alakfu, lying Northward from Ka- 

 dyak where Puilikaref t wintered, muft be ilill nearer the 



* Kadyak Is not laid down upon any chart of the new dlfco'vercd 

 iflands : for we have no chart of Glottoff's voyage ; and no other Ruf- 

 fian navigator touched at that ifland. 



t See Chap. VI. 



continent : 



