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they kill a dog, wind the inteftines round two poles, and pats be- 
tween them. 
The Greenlanders are not better mafters:. They leave their dogs -Gaeennane.. 
to feed on muffels or berries; unlefs.in a great capture of feals, 
when they treat them with the blood and garbage. Thefe people 
alfo fometimes eat their dogs: ufe the fkins for coverlets, fer cloath- 
ing, or to border and feam their habits: and their beft thread is 
made of the guts. . 
The Dogs in general are large; and, in the frigid parts at left, 
have the appearance-of Wolves: are ufually white, with a black face, 
fometimes varied with black and white, fometimes all white; rarely 
brown, or all black : have fharp nofes, thick hair, and fhort ears: and 
_feldom bark ; but fet up a fort of growl, or favage howl. They fleep 
abroad ; and make a lodge in the fnow, lying with only their nofes 
out. They fwim moft excellently: and will hunt, in packs, the 
ptarmigan, arétic fox, polar bear, and feals lying on the ice. The 
natives fometimes ufe them in the chafe of the bear. They are ex- 
.ceffively fierce; and, like wolves, inftantly Ay on the few domeftic 
animals introduced into Greenland. ‘They will fight among them- 
felves, ¢ven to death. Canine madnefs is unknown in Greenland *. 
They are to the natives in the place of horfes: the Greenlanders fatten 
to their fledges from four to ten; and thus make their vifits in 
favage ftate, or bring home the animals they have killed. Lgede 
fays that they will travel over the ice fifteen German miles in a day, 
or fixty Englifbs with fledges Joaden with their mafters and five or fix 
Jarge feals +. 
Thofe of the neighboring ifland of Iceland have a great refem- 
blance to them. As to thofe of Newfoundland, it is not certain that 
there is any diftin& breed: moft of them are curs, with a crofs of the 
" maftiff: fome will, and others will not, take the water, abfolutely 
refufing to go in. The country was found uninhabited, which 
makes it more probable that they were introduced by the Europeaus ; 
FeeLan®. 
© Faun. Greenl, p. 19. + Egede, 63. Crantz,i.74. 
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