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with another, equally fortunate; the-. 
found, on the fhore, the root of a fir 
tree, which nearly approached to th< 
figure of a bow. 
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As neceffity has ever been the mother 
of invention, fo they foon fafhioned this 
root to a good bow, by the help of a 
knife ; but itill they wanted a firing, and 
arrows. Not knowing how to procure thefe 
at prefent, they refolved upon making a 
couple of lances, to defend themfelve^ 
againft the white bears, by far the moft 
ferocious of their kind, whofe attacks 
they had great reafbn to dread. 
Finding they could neither make the 
heads of their lances, nor of their arrows, 
without the help of a hammer, they con- 
trived to form the large iron hook men- 
tioned above into, one, by heating it, and 
widening; a hole it happened to have about 
its middle, with the help of one of their 
largfeff. nails. This received the handle-, 
and a round button at one end of the heok 
ferved 
