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not only shooting cattle with their arrows, but even 

 carrying human beings with them to the hills. 

 Child-bed women are sometimes taken to nurse a 

 prince, and although the appearance of the body re- 

 main at home, yet the immaterial part is removed. 

 Such persons are observed to be very pale and ab- 

 sent ; and it is generally some old woman who en- 

 joys the faculty of bringing soul and body toge- 

 ther." Vol. ii. p. 73. 



No. IL 



In order to make this little work as complete as 

 possible, I have annexed the following accounts of 

 the Dutch, English, and American whale-fisheries. 

 The two former I have compiled from authentic do- 

 cuments, and the latter is extracted from the late 

 valuable work of Mr. Pitkin on the Commerce of 

 the United States. 



Dutch Whale Fishery. — Towards the latter end 

 of the sixteenth century, the whale-fishing on the 

 coast of Spitzbergen became considerable. It was 

 entirely in the hands of the English till the 

 year 1578. This fishery was first carried on by 



