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Their ordinary way of dividing their Land, is one Half* 
peny to every Family. The Rocks alfo are divided, fuchand 
fuch on every Halfpeny. And there is a kind of Officer left by 
the Matter of chelfland, who governs ia his abfence, and fo 
regulates, that the beft Climbers and the worfl are mixed to- 
getherj that fo none of the Land be unlaboured 5 that is, that 
all the Shelves of the higheft Rocks be fearched for Eggs. 
The way of their Climbing, when they kill their Fowls, is 
thus 5 They go two and two with a long Rope, not made of 
Hemp, but of Cow- Hides faked, and the Thongs cut round 
about, and plaited fix or ninefold. Each end of the Rope is 
tyed about each one of their Middle, and he that is foremoft 
goes till he comes toa fafe ftandiog, the other ftanding firm all 
that time to keep him up, in cafe his foot fliould have flip*d : 
When the foremoft is come to a fafe ftanding; then the other 
goes, either below or above him, where his bufinefs is ; and 
fo they watch time about; feldom any of them being loftj 
when this is obferved. 
The aforefaid Officer, when any couple is to be Married, 
brings them to one of their Chappels, and adminifters an Oath 
to them ; fo they are married. 
Their thildren, when they come to the Age of i or 16. or 
thereabout , come with the Mafler of the Ifle to the Hereijch 
I fland, and are there Baptized. 
An ordinary way of killing the Fowls in the Mift is this^ 
Some of thefe Fellows lie befide the Door of rhe little Houfes 
they have in their Iflands, flat upon their banks, and open their 
Breafts. Which, when the Fowls perceive, they fit upon them, 
and are prefently catch'd, and their necks broke. One Fel- 
low has kill'd hundreds of Fowls in one night, after this man- 
ner^ 
Sometimes they fet Grins on the very top of the higheft 
Rocks, and make them ftrong for great Fowls. One being 
fefting of thefe Grins, as he was walking along his great Toe 
was catc'd in one of them, which made him ftumble and fall 
down : yet the Grin being faft and ftrong, kept hira hung with 
his head downward, till thofe that miffed him came in the 
morning, and found him fo fallen. 
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