An account of several late voyages and discoveries

1 :t 2 Th, Fo,;,1h r.,, of the PoJ 11 g, found nothing in their Stomachs but grear long whiti{h Worms of the thickneísof little Finger. We come up to them wb, lye opon the largc íheets of Ice; we grrat noife with fbouting, ,vhich an · tbem p~rhaps, or elfe o~t of nov~lty tbty up the1r Nofcs very h1gh, and make a Neck, as our Grey.:.hounds do, and b3rl this frigbt of theirs we ftrilce them with pikes, or long Polcs upon thcir Nofes, knock them down halí dead , bot for ali tbey recover themfelves, and rife a¡tain: of them tland upon their defence, bire ar, run aftcr the Men, and they run as E Man, and their lame way of goir.g doth hinder them at all, for they fhove th along juO: like ail Eel ; Some run from to the Water,and lcave a yellow Dung them, which tbey fquirt out at their H as the Hern does: Tbey ftink D3turally nably. Others ftand in the Water with théir Belly~ and look about them to fce done upon the Ice : When they are g dive under thc Water, thcy hold up thcir fa, and make a long Ncck; When they from the Ice under Water, and alfo w make a dance of SMl11, as they call ir, the Shipe, they conRantly dive witb Heads under water. Thef bave their ODl!S by tbem, one whereo we took away us to the Sbip ali ve, but it would not ~ thing, but did mew juO: like a Cat, and 11 touch'd him he would fnap at u,, fo wc