An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to St,itzbcrg,n. 109 ltock, and yet th~y did not matter it at ali. hco we had a mind to kill them, we werc ccd to run rhem through witb our Launces. They fwim from one fbeet of Ice to the other~ y alfodive under ~Vater, when they wcre at e fide of our Long-boat, they did divc, and · e ap ae~in on the other. They alfo ron up– rhe Lañ'd. I did not hear them roar fo as n do, but they only bark. Wc could not difcern the }'t..,1ng ones from old ones, but only by the two forthermoft g Teeth, whkh in the young were hollow '1bin, but thofe of the old ones wcre clofe and lid. lf you burn their Teeth, and powder ·em, and give them inwardly, it difperfeth gulated Blood. The young ones ke~p con- ntly clofe to the old ones; we obferved rhat o young ones and an old one would not veoneanother, for if one ran away, itturn'd k again immediately as foon as it did hear others~ as if it wou]d come to help them. e old one run to the young ene, and the ng one to the old one, and rather than they uld Jeave one another, they would fuffer them• ves to be all killed. Tbey feed upon the Carcatfes of Whaler, and r them we killed the mofr : They alfo eat n alive when they have an opportunity ro íler them: They remove or roll away rhe nes of the burying places, open the Coftins, .d eat the dead Men, which many have feen, d we can alfo conclude it from hence, be- íc wc find the dead Mens Boaes lye by the Coffins