oe ek Be ee 
with very good wool. The Fathers called both Sheep, from their great 
refemblance to them *. Either the Americans of latitude 50 are pof- 
fefled of thefe animals, or may obtain the fleeces by commerce from 
the fouthern Indians. 
The 4rgali abound in Kamtfchatka; they are the moft ufeful of ° 
their animals, for they contribute to food and cloathing. The 
Kamtfchatkans eloath themfelves with the fkins, and efteem the flefh, 
efpecially the fat, diet fit for the Gods. ‘There is no labor which 
they will not undergo in the chafe. They abandon their habitations, 
‘with all their family, in the fpring, and continue the whole fummer 
in the employ, amidft the rude mountains, fearlefs. of the dreadful 
precipices, or of the avelenches, which often overwhelm the eager 
fportimen. 
Thefe animals are fhot with guns or with arrows ; fometimes with 
crofs-bows, which are placed in the paths, and difcharged by means 
of a ftring whenever the 4rgali happens to tread on it. They are 
- often chafed with dogs, not that they are overtaken by them; but 
when they are driven to the lofty fummits, they will often ftand 
and look as if it were with contempt on the dogs below, which gives 
the hunter an opportunity of creeping within reach while they are fo 
engaged ; for they are the fhyeft of animals. 
The Mongols and Tungufi ufe a nobler fpecies of chafe: they col- 
lect together a vaft multitude of horfes and dogs, attempting to fur- 
round them on a fudden; for fuch is their fwiftnefs and cunning, 
that if they perceive, either by fight or fmell, the approach of the 
chaffeurs, they inftantly take to flight, and fecure themfelves on the 
lofty and inacceffible fummits. 
Domefticated Sheep will live even in the dreadful climate of 
Greenland. Mr. Fabricius + fays, they are kept in many places. They 
are very numerous in Iceland. Before the epidemical difeafe which 
raged among them from £740 to 1750, it was not uncommon far a 
* Ph. Tranf. abr, Vv. partite 195. + Faun, Groenl. p. 29: 
fingle 
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Cuase In 
KamTscHATKA. 
In Moncotta. 
SHEEP IN 
ICELAND. 
