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Identifier: outing15newy
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: [New York : Outing Pub. Co.]
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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er•chain is secured to one fin, and it is withthis second chain that the whale is man-aged. The carcass runs fore and aft, the headbeing aft, and the fin in front of the.gangway. With sharp-cutting spades aman cuts through the blubber, circling.around the whale from the extremity ofthe mouth toward the tail, corkscrew like.He cuts down to the lean. By hauling•on the fin chain the carcass rolls, and the^ blanket piece of blubber tears itself•off, aided by the cutting spades. Whenthe whale is rolled quarter over one lip•comes uppermost. A tackle is fastenedto this ; then it is cut off, hoisted on deckand dropped into the blubber room, asthe space between decks from the main-mast to the forecastle is called. Allhoisting is done by the windlass, and inmost of the vessels power comes froma donkey engine. The blanket piece is•started again and the whale rolled halfway over. The throat is then uppermost.This in turn is cut off and deposited inthe blubber room, then the other lip is
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A BLANKET PIECE. rolled up and removed. By this time theblanket piece becomes unwieldy in itslength, so another hold is secured closedown to the carcass, and the strip ofblubber, perhaps fifteen feet long and sixfeet wide, cut off and dropped into theblubber room. The most difficult part of the wholeoperation is now at hand, and that is tocut off the head or upper jaw, whichcontains all the whalebone. A false orcareless move might destroy hundreds ofdollars worth of bone, or, possibly, causethe loss of the whole head. A chain iscarefully drawn through a hole cut be-tween the scalp bone and the tough blub-ber about the spout hole. The backboneis chopped nearly through, near wherethe blanket piece was started, then by ajerk of the tackle the weight breaks theremainder and the head is hauled ondeck. There was once a whaling captainwho disjointed the head instead of chop-ping it off. My whales head containedabout twenty-five hundred pounds ofwhalebone, and as the price of bonewas .50 a
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