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even they are engaged in frequent and bloody quarrels, 

 and commit murder without the leatl: compun6lion. 

 Their difpofition engages them in continual wars, in 

 which they always endeavour to gain their point by 

 ftratagem. The inhabitants of Unimak are formidable 

 to all the reft ; they frequently invade the other iilands, 

 and carry off women, the chief objed: of their wars. 

 Alaxa is moll: fubjecft to thefe incurlions, probably be- 

 caufe it is more populous and extenfive. They all 

 join in hating the Ruffians, whom they confider as ge- 

 neral invaders, and therefore kill them wherever they 

 can. The people of Unalaflika however are more 

 friendly ; for Lieutenant LevafhefF, being informed that 

 there was a Ruffian velTel in the ftraits of Alaxa, 

 prevailed on Ibme Unalaffikans to carry a letter, which 

 they undertook, notwithftanding the danger they were 

 expofed to from the inhabitants of the intervening* 

 iilands. . 



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 The journalift fays, that thefe people have no kind 

 of religion, nor any. riotian of a God. We obferve 

 however among them'^ftifficient marks of fuch a religion 

 as might be expedt^^l frQXja; people in their fituation.. 

 For the journalift informs us, that they have fortune- 

 tellers employed by them at their feftivals. Thefe per- 

 fons pretend to foretel events by the information of the 

 Kugans or Daemons. In their divinations they put on 



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