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* Jittle lance into it, and kills it outright, but {tops up the wound! 
“ 
\! Ditto, a variety of N* 77. 
directly to preferve the blood; and laftly, he blows it up, like a 
bladder, betwixt fkin and flefh, to put it into a better capacity of 
fwimming after him ; for which purpofe he faftens it to the left~ 
fide of his kajak, or boat *.. 
* In this exercife the Greenlander ‘is. expofed to the moi and 
greateft danger of his life; which is probably the reafon that they 
call this hunt, or fifhery, kamavock, i. e. the Extinction, viz. of life.. 
For if the line fhould entangle itfelf, as it eafily may, in its fud- 
den and violent motion; or if it fhould catch hold of the kajak,, 
‘or fhould wind itfelf round the oar, or the hand, or even the neck, 
as it fometimes does im windy weather; or if the Seal fhould turn: 
fuddenly to the other fide of the boat; it cannot be otherwife than. 
that the kajak muft be overturned by the ftring, and drawn down: 
under water. On fuch defperate occafions the poor Greenlander 
ftands in need of all the arts defcribed in the former Seétion, to: 
difentangle himfelf from the ftring, and to raife himfelf up from: 
under the water feveral times fucceffively ; for he will continually: 
be overturning till he has quite difengaged. himfelf from the line, 
Nay, when he imagines himfelf to be out of all danger, and comes. 
too near the dying Seal, it may ftill bite him in the face or hand; 
and a female Seal that has young, inftead of flying the field, ‘will 
fometimes fly at the Greenlander in the moft vehement rage,. and: 
do him a mifchief, or bite a hole in his kajak that he mutt fink. 
«In this way, fingly, they can kill none but the carelefs ftupid' 
Seal, called Attarfoak t.. Several im company muft purfue the 
cautious Kaffigiak [ by the clapper-hunt. In the fame manner they 
alfo furround and kill the 4ftar/foit || in great numbers at certain. 
feafons of the year; for in autumn they retire into the creeks or- 
inlets in ftormy weather, as in the Wepi/fet found in Ball’s river; 
between the main land and the ifland Kangek, which is full two. 
® See vol. i. 150. tab. vilis + See N° 77. of this-work, t Ditto, N° 72; 
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