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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50828	The present state of Denmark. By Guy Miege, author of the New cosmography, or survey of the whole world.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1683 (1683)	Wing M2024; ESTC R214182	71,445	167

come to the young ones that lye all still far enough from the Water The Slaughter being over they hale the dead Seals to the Water-side and tye them fast to the Rope wherewith those in the Boat pull them out of the Cave That being done the Men get out with their Boat or if the Waves be great the Boat and Men are also haled out In this manner they get sometimes half a hundred Seals in one Cave the old ones being twice as big as a Masty Dog They use their Skins for Shoes melt the Fat into Train-Oyl and eat the Flesh of them They have also a peculiar way to take Whales especially the small sort of them called Grind-Whales Which sometimes come in great Flocks under the Land in foggy Weather or with the Tide in a dark Night and running on the Lands ly dry when it is low Water So that when Folks come out in the Morning all their Business is to seize upon and hale them away But the best Sport is when the Inhabitants must drive them into their Creeks or Inlets to catch them For then the Country to be sure must run and be up in Arms. Presently they bring as many Boats together as they can and their Whale-spears with them They drive the Whale-flock before them with great noise and casting of Stones And if there be occasion the Boats divide themselves into two Squadrons the one lying below in the form of a half-moon to meet any Whale that would flee during the Slaughter the other advancing into the midst of the Flock and thrusting their Whales-spears into their Bodies On the Land side there are Folks lying in an Ambush till the Whales are come on Ground Then they wade as deep as they can and kill them with their Weapons Which is done with such Fury on both sides that the Water takes the Tincture of Blood and that does so blind the Whale that she cannot see to make her escape These Creatures as strong as they are make little or no Resistance but only plunge as well as they can before the Boats and People till Death comes upon them And then indeed they strike so terribly about with their Tails that sometimes they beat the Boats to pieces and the men are in great danger Some of these Whales get again loose from the Sands and carry the Boats a great way with them on their Backs striking them full of Water and sometimes overturning them But the Rear-Squadron of Boats drives them in again unless they do plunge and dive so long away under Water that they must let them go Here is also another sort of Whales called Doglings which is taken after an incredible manner But the Inhabitants dare not venture upon the great Whales such as the Roar and Witch-Whale In the Year 1664. there appeared says my Author a Whale-Dog that is a Sea Monster every way like a Dog which swum about the Whales between them and the Land It was says he of a grey colour hairy and had long Ears like an English rough Spaniel And in the Year 1670. there was seen West of Suderoe a Mermaid close by the Land during two hours and a half She stood upright above the Water having long Hair on her Head spread on the Water and holding a Fish in her hand with the Head downwards As for the People of Feroe they live along the Sea-side and dwell where it is lowest and most convenient for them to get to Sea with their Boats and ply their Fishing Which Places are scarce enough there being almost every where high Promontory's whence no Body can come down Their Houses are low built and on all sides well defended with thick Walls made of green Turf and Stones They have a great many Creeks Inlets and good Havens and amongst these Thorse-haven in Stromoe is the most considerable The Air being pretty wholsom and the Inhabitants using always one Diet here are usually found Folks that live to a great Age as 80 or 90 some 100 years and above My Author makes mention of one Erasmus who lived in Harold Sound in the Northern Islands This Man having got no Issue by his first Wife and desiring to leave an Heir of his Body marry'd again he being then about ninety Years old He marry'd a young Woman by whom he got five Children and he was 103 years old when he got the last Neither is the thing liable to Suspicion considering his Wife was a Woman of very good Repute and that would not impose upon him At last he died 110 years old Though this Country lies all upon the Sea yet it is so far from being troubled with Agues that some who had it and could not be quit of it in other Places lost it by coming hither without using any Medicine Neither are Children troubled here with the Small Pox except it be brought hither from Foreign Parts 'T is true this Country as well as others has its particular Discases In the Spring and after Harvest they are generally affected with a strong Rhume that makes them cough and spit and causes such an Head-ach and pain in the Limbs that many are bedrid with it and some dye of it Against this Sickness which doubtless proceeds from a cold and moist Air they drink sowr Whey as hot as they can suffer it This Sickness when they come off well does them a great deal of good purging as it does the Body of all Impurity contracted by the cold moisture of the Air which might cause otherwise more dangerous Discases They are also sometimes troubled with a Hot Sickness causing acute Pains in the Head and Distractions with Flux of the Belly which carries off a great many People The Scurvey is a Discase this People is also subject to who cure themselves usually with new Milk boiled with Scurvy-grass and sometimes with new Milk alone But Leprosy the next Kin to Scurvey is the worst and nastiest of all their Diseases Now Physicians reckon three sorts of Leprosie viz. Tyria Alopecia and Elephantiasis In the first the Patients Skin is soft with many Spots and white Warts thereon and sometimes it falls off in Shells Those that are infected with the second have a red Face and their Beards and Eye-brows fall off The third sort is that which the People of Feroe are troubled with And this is called Elephantiasis from the Elephant to whom they grow like in their Skin The Face and Limbs of almost all the Infected are full of blew Knobs that break out sometimes as boils which deforms them strangely They are hoarse besides and speak through their Noses This Sickness takes them most in the Spring and Fall and then many dye of it The same is caused as the Scurvy by the Rawness of the Air but especially by the wretched Diet of the poorer sort of People who eat Flesh and Fish half rotten and fresh Fish without any Salt Whereby the Blood being corrupted the Sickness gnaws it self a great while