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little property, and if this is refused as unjust, he insists upon the restoration of his former property, and one way or other he generally succeeds in his imposition. These means of supply extend to a comparative small number, and the rest fabricate most of their Utensils, such as the Ice Trench, Knife or Dagg with the Pinnage of the Rein Deer. The Hatchet is made of Stone and is of this form [drawing] pointed at both ends something like a wedge and attached to wood handle with line. All which from such frail materials require infinite altho' not hard labour, and patience to perform their several offices. To fell timber with this hatchet, they must always chop against the file du bois, and after raising a few splinters, a tree is soon knocked down[.] With their Ice Trench it must require much time and infinite address to cut through solid ice more than six

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