2 >. Atkin on preferring Health 
that this perfon was of an indolent difpofition, 
and could not conquer his averfion to drinking 
the reindeer’s blood. The three furvivors, after 
remaining fix years and three months on this 
defolate and folitary ifland, were happily refcued 
by a fhip driven cafually upon the coaft, and 
returned home in fafety. They were ftrong and 
healthy at their return, but by habit had con¬ 
tracted an inability of eating bread, or drinking 
fpirituous liquors. 
To the above relations, I fhall add the follow¬ 
ing fhort quotations relative to the fame fubjedt. 
In a note to the account of the four Ruffians, 
it is faid, “Counfellor Muller fays, the Ruffians 
about Archangel fhould be imitated; fome of 
whom every year winter in Nova Zembla without 
ever contratting the fcurvy. They follow the 
example of the Samoides, by frequently drinking 
the warm blood of reindeer juft killed. The 
hunting of thefe animals requires continual 
exercife. None ever keep their huts during the 
day, unlefs tHe ftormy weather, or too great 
quantity of fnow, hinders them from taking 
their ufual exercife.” 
In a manufcript French account of the iflands 
lying between Kamtfchatka and America, drawn 
up by that eminent naturalift and geographer, 
Mr. Pallas, I find it mentioned, thac “ the 
Ruffians, in their hunting voyages to thefe iflands, 
(an expedition generally lading three years) in 
order 
