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rvcJ for the face of the hammer. A laro; 
ICl'VC 
pebble fupplied the place of an anvil ; 
and a couple of raindecr's horns made the 
tongs. By the means of fuch tools, they 
made two heads cf fpears; and after po- 
lilhing and fharpening them on flone?, 
they tied them as tall as pofiible with 
thongs made of raindeer-fkins, to flicks 
about the thicknefs of a' man's arm, 
which they got from fome branches of 
trees that had been call on fliore. 
Tims enuipoed with fpears, thev re- 
foived to attack a white bear; and alter a 
moft dangerous encounter, thev killed the 
formidable creature, and thereby made a 
new fupply or provisions. The flefh of 
this animal they relifhed exceedingly, as 
ihey thought it much refembled beef in 
talte and flavour. The tendons they 
iaw with much plea fur e could, with 
little or no trouble, be divided into fila- 
ments, of what fmenefs thev thought fit. 
This perhaps was the moil fortunate dif- 
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