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they knew to have been eredled near that coaft. 
The hut was difcovered; but the men, on 
returning to the Ihore, found all the ice cleared 
away, and the fhip no longer to be feen; and 
indeed it was never more heard of. I pafs over 
their firft tranfports of grief and defpair, and 
alfo, their many ingenious contrivances to furnilb 
themfelves with the necefiaries they flood moll 
in need of. Their diet and way of life are the 
circumftances peculiarly connected with my 
fubjeft. After fitting up their hut as comfortably 
as they could, and laying in drift wood, collefted 
on the fhore, for fuel, they turned their attention 
chiefly to the procuring of provifion. Three 
fpecies of animals, which they caught and killed 
by various devices, conftituted their whole 
variety of food. Thefe were, reindeer, white 
bears, and foxes. The flefh they eat almoft raw, 
and without fait; ufing, by way of bread to it, 
other flefh, dried hard in the fmoke. Their drink 
was running water in the fummer, and melted 
ice and fnow in the winter. Their prefervatives 
againft the fcurvy were, fwallowing raw frozen 
meat broken into bits, drinking the warm blood 
of reindeer juft killed, eating fcurvy-grafs, when 
they could meet with it, and ufing much exer- 
cife. By thefe means three of them remained 
entirely free from this difeafe during the whole 
of their abode. The fourth died of it, after 
lingering on to the fixth year. It is remarked 
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