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14. But it is not long before he is compell- Compelled? ed to rife again to the furface of the water to

breathe; and then the Greenlander, who has been pursuing him all the time, attacks him breathe. anew, and dispatches him with a shorter lance, which he has brought with him for the purpose. He then ties his prey to his boat, and tows it dispatches. after him to his family, who receive it with joy, and drefs it for his fupper.

15. Although thefe poor people live a life fatigue. of fuch continual fatigue, and are obliged to

earn their food with fo much hardship, they

are generous and hofpitable in the manage- hofpitable? ment of it; for not a perfon prefent but is invited to partake of the feaft: And a Greenlander would think himself dishonoured for thought. - life, that fhould be thought capable of wifhing to keep it all to himself.

towed?

butchers.

16. The men hunt and fish, but when they have towed their booty to land, they trouble themselves no further about it; nay it would be accounted beneath their dignity only to draw the feal up upon the fhore. The women are the butchers and cooks, and also the curriers to dress the pelts and make clothes, fhoes, pelts? and boots, out of them.

curriers.

17. When the men come home all covered icicles. with wet and icicles, and fit down comforta

- bly in their huts to feaft upon their prey, their common conversation is about the dangers expedition? and accidents they have met with in their ex

pedition.

18. A Greenlander relates, how he bounded greenlanderi over the waves to furprise a monftrous feal; how he pierced the animal with his harpoon,

who had liked to have dragged the boat with Surprije. him under the water; how he attacked him again in closer combat how the beaft, enraged with his wounds, rufhed upon him in order to feat. .deûtroy him with his teeth; and how in the

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Triumphed? end,by courage and perfeverance, he triumphed over his adverfary, and brought him fafe to land.

vehemence ?

minute?

catch.

Skiffs.

dexterity?

boat.

difengage?

faftened. inevitably.

paddle.

admitted.

9. all this he relates with the vehemence and intereft which people naturally feel for things which concern them nearly; he stands in the midst of his country men, and describes every minute circumftance of his adventures; the little children gather round, and greedily catch the relation: they feel themselves interested in every circumftance; they hear, and wish to share in the toils and glory of their fathers.

20. When they are little bigger, they exercife themselves in fmall fkiffs, with which they learn to overcome the waves. Nothing can be more dangerous, or require greater dexterity than the management of a greenlander's boat.

21. The leaft thing overfets it, and then the man, who cannot difengage himself from the boat which is fastened to his middle, finks down below the waves, and is inevitably drowned if he cannot regain his balance. The only hope of doing this is placed in the proper application of his oar; and therefore the dextrous management of this implement forms the early study of the young Greenlanders.

22. In their fportive parties they row about in a thousand different manners; they dive unintrepidity? der their boats, and then fet them to rights. with their paddle; they learn to glide over the rougheft billows, and face the greatest dangers with intrepidity; till in the end they acquire fufficient ftrength and address to fish themfelves, and to be admitted into the clafs of men.

QUESTIONS. Where is Greenland fituated? what is its climate ?-productions? How do the inhabitants build? What animais have they vegetables? What is there peculiar to

their feas? What are the occupations of the inhabitants? How is the feal taken ? On what fubjects is their conversation at their feafts? Te. Te.

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The Rein-Deer..

Fall animals of the deer kind, the Rein-deer. rein deer is the most extraordinary

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and the most useful. It is a native of the native ?
icy regions of the north;, and though many
attempts have been made to accuftom it to a

more fouthern climate, it fhortly feels the declines?
influence of the change, and, in a few months,
declines and dies..

2. Nature feems to have fitted it entirely to answer the neceffities of that hardy race of mankind that live near the pole. As thefe would find it impoffible to fubfift among their barren, fnowy mountains, without its aid, fo this animal can live only there, where its af fiftance is most abfolutely neceffary.

pole?

fubfift?

barren,

3. From it alone the natives of Lapland answers. and Greenland fupply most of their wants; it answers the purposes of a horse, to convey

them and their fcanty furniture from one furnishing ?: mountain to another; it answers the purposes. of a cow, in giving milk; and it anfwers the purposes of the fheep, in furnithing them with a warm tho with a homely kind of clothing.

homely.

quadruped?

deftitute?

4. From this quadruped alone, therefore, they receive as many advantages as we derive from three of our most useful creatures; fo that Providence does not leave thefe poor outcafts entirely deftitute, but gives them a patient. faithful domeftic, more patient and fervicea ble than any other in nature.

5. The rein-deer refembles the American hoofs. elk in the fashion of its horns; its ears are

much larger; its pace is rather a trot than

a bounding, and this it can continue for a cloven? whole day; its hoofs are cloven and moveable, fo that it fpreads them abroad as it goes, to prevent its finking in the fnow.

When

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