j6 SEALS, 



fix weeks, and a hearth to drefs their meat on. They then moor their 

 boat to one of thefe mountanous pieces of ice, the hollows of which 

 are filled with Seals. They cloath themfelves in white, to render them- 

 felves lefs fufpefted by thofe animals. They alfo whiten their boats 

 with lime ; and fleep in them during night, and thus pafs ten or twelve 

 days among the ice, till they difcover the Seals. When they hear a 



certain crackling, they confider it as a fign that the piece of ice is about 



to fall to pieces ; they guard againft the confequences, and feek ano- 

 - ther; and fo continue rowing from one piece of ice to another, in fearch 



of the Seals, till they have exhaufted every obje<5t of the chace.— Mr, 



Osdman, 



