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in whicli there were two harpoons, such as are 
used by the Esquimaux. These harpoons, which 
were found sticking in the animal, appeared to 
have been the cause of its death. From the state 
of the carcass, it was evident that the animal had 
not been long dead; and from the attachment of 
filaments of sea-horse skin to the harpoons, that 
had been used in the place of cordage, which were 
not yet decayed, it was further evident that these 
harpoons had not been long fastened Hence, 
there could be no doubt but this sea-horse had 
received the harpoons found in its body, from the 
hand of some inhabitant of the east coast of Green¬ 
land ; and the probability was, that the time when 
the attack was made, was within a few days of that 
in which the animal was found. 
From the evidently recent character of some of 
the remains found, it was not improbable but there 
might be existing inhabitants even on some of the 
parts at which we touched. Doubtless, the sight 
of such an extraordinary object to them as a ship, 
* This circumstance was communicated to me by an 
intelligent navigator of Bremen, Captain Haacke, of the 
ship Bremen, and brother to the person who picked up the 
sea-horse. The harpoons were about four inches long. 
They were formed of bone, armed with iron. To one of 
them, a thong of hide, two fathoms in length, was attached, 
and to the other a similar thong, six fathoms in length. 
