CAPTURE OF THE 



in the )r,e for breathing, the Greenlander seats him- 

 self on a stool, putting his feet on a board, to 



keep them from the cold. " Now when the Seal 

 comes and puts its nose at the hole, he pierces it 

 instantly with his harpoon, then breaks the hole 

 larger, and draws it out, and kills it quite. Some- 

 times, again, if the Greenlander sees a Seal lying 

 near its hole upon the ice, he slides along on his 

 belly towards it, wags his head, and grunts like a 

 Seal, and the poor animal, thinking it is one of its 

 innocent companions, lets him come near enough to 

 pierce it with his long lance/' A third device will 

 be found, from Pallas's Travels, in our account of 

 the Hare of the Sea, or Leporine Seal; and the 

 only other method we shall particularize is that men- 

 tioned on the same authority, as practised in Lake 

 Baikal: " AtZivoviawe met a number of individuals 

 going a Seal-hunting. This fishery is farmed out, and 



