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rpwing with, and keeping the boat in equi- 

 librium daring a ftorm. The paddles of 

 the oar are very narrow. The boat will 

 contain but a fingle perfon. Efquimaux 

 have often been found fafe in their boats 

 many miles from land, in violent fiorms, 

 where fhips found it difficult to fave them- 

 felves. Their boats float on the waves like 

 bladders, and they row them with incredi- 

 ble velocity. I am told, they have boats 

 pf different fhapes. They have likewife 

 larger boats of wood, covered with leather 

 in which feveral people may fit, and ia 

 which their women commonly go to fea? 3| 



Bows and arrows, javelins and harpoons, 

 are their arms. With the laft they kill 

 \vhales, and other large marine animals. 

 The points of their arrows and harpoons 

 are fometimes made of iron, fometimes of 

 bone, and fometirqes of the teeth of the 

 walrufs. Their quivers are made of feals 

 /kins. The needles with which they fow 

 their clpaths are likewife made of iron or 

 of bone. All their iron they get by fome 

 means or other from the Europeans. > ^flsi 



THEY fometimes go on board the Euro* 

 pean (hips in order to exchange fome of 

 their goods for knives and other iron. But 

 it i$ not advifeable for Europeans to go on 

 Chore, unlefs they be numerous j for the 



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