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Efquimaux are falfe and treacherous, and 

 cannot /ufFer Grangers amongft them. If 

 they find themfelves too weak, they run 

 away at the approach of ftrangers j but if 

 they think they are an over-match for them, 

 they kill all that come in their way, with- 

 out leaving a fingle one alive. The Kuro- 

 peansy therefore, do not venture to let a 

 greater numh^v o^ Efquimaux come on board 

 their fhips than they can eafily mafter. If 

 they are fhip-wrecked on the Efquimaux 

 coafts, they may as well be drowned in the 

 fea as come fafe to the fliore : this many 

 Europeans have experienced. The Euro- 

 pean boats and fliips which the Efquimaux 

 get into their power, are immediately cut 

 in pieces and robbed of all their naiJs and 

 other iron, which they work into knives, 

 needles, arrow-heads, &c. They make ufc 

 of fire for no other purpofes but working of 

 iron, and preparing the fkins of animals. 

 Their meat is eaten all raw. When they come 

 on board an European (hip, and are offered 

 fome of the failurs meat, they never will 

 tafte of it till they have fecn fome Europeaiis 

 eat it. Though nothing pleafed other fa- 

 vage nations fo much as brandy, yet many 

 Frenchmen have afiured me, 'that they never 

 could prevail on the Efquimaux to take a 

 dram of it. Their millrull of other nations 



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