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led Nelleraglek, which is a Name of a Man amongſt them; this they ſay has got on a Coat of Rain-Deers Skin. Gemini, Auriga and Cupella are named Killaub Kuttuk, that is, the Breaſt Bone of Heaven.

When two Stars ſeem to meet together, they ſay, that they are a viſiting one another; others will have it to be two Women, who being Rivals, take one another by the Hair.

What they take Thunder to be.Concerning Thunder and Lightning, they ſay, that two old Women live together in one Houſe in the Air, who now and then fall out and quarrel about a thick and ſtiff outſtretched Seal Skin (becauſe ſuch a Skin, if beaten as a Drum, has ſome Likeneſs to the Noiſe of Thunder;) whilſt they are thus by the Ears together, down comes the Houſe with great bouncing and cracking, and the Lamps are broken, the Fires and broken Pieces fly about in the Air, and this, in their Philoſophy, is Thunder and Lightning.

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