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In
the
first
place
,
the
enormous
cutting
tackles
,
among
other
ponderous
things
comprising
a
cluster
of
blocks
generally
painted
green
,
and
which
no
single
man
can
possibly
lift
--
this
vast
bunch
of
grapes
was
swayed
up
to
the
main-top
and
firmly
lashed
to
the
lower
mast-head
,
the
strongest
point
anywhere
above
a
ship
's
deck
.
The
end
of
the
hawser-like
rope
winding
through
these
intricacies
,
was
then
conducted
to
the
windlass
,
and
the
huge
lower
block
of
the
tackles
was
swung
over
the
whale
;
to
this
block
the
great
blubber
hook
,
weighing
some
one
hundred
pounds
,
was
attached
.
And
now
suspended
in
stages
over
the
side
,
Starbuck
and
Stubb
,
the
mates
,
armed
with
their
long
spades
,
began
cutting
a
hole
in
the
body
for
the
insertion
of
the
hook
just
above
the
nearest
of
the
two
side-fins
.
This
done
,
a
broad
,
semicircular
line
is
cut
round
the
hole
,
the
hook
is
inserted
,
and
the
main
body
of
the
crew
striking
up
a
wild
chorus
,
now
commence
heaving
in
one
dense
crowd
at
the
windlass
.
When
instantly
,
the
entire
ship
careens
over
on
her
side
;
every
bolt
in
her
starts
like
the
nailheads
of
an
old
house
in
frosty
weather
;
she
trembles
,
quivers
,
and
nods
her
frighted
mast-heads
to
the
sky
.
More
and
more
she
leans
over
to
the
whale
,
while
every
gasping
heave
of
the
windlass
is
answered
by
a
helping
heave
from
the
billows
;
till
at
last
,
a
swift
,
startling
snap
is
heard
;
with
a
great
swash
the
ship
rolls
upwards
and
backwards
from
the
whale
,
and
the
triumphant
tackle
rises
into
sight
dragging
after
it
the
disengaged
semicircular
end
of
the
first
strip
of
blubber
.
Now
as
the
blubber
envelopes
the
whale
precisely
as
the
rind
does
an
orange
,
so
is
it
stripped
off
from
the
body
precisely
as
an
orange
is
sometimes
stripped
by
spiralizing
it
.
For
the
strain
constantly
kept
up
by
the
windlass
continually
keeps
the
whale
rolling
over
and
over
in
the
water
,
and
as
the
blubber
in
one
strip
uniformly
peels
off
along
the
line
called
the
"
scarf
,
"
simultaneously
cut
by
the
spades
of
Starbuck
and
Stubb
,
the
mates
;
and
just
as
fast
as
it
is
thus
peeled
off
,
and
indeed
by
that
very
act
itself
,
it
is
all
the
time
being
hoisted
higher
and
higher
aloft
till
its
upper
end
grazes
the
main-top
;
the
men
at
the
windlass
then
cease
heaving
,
for
a
moment
or
two
the
prodigious
blood-dripping
mass
sways
to
and
fro
as
if
let
down
from
the
sky
,
and
every
one
present
must
take
good
heed
to
dodge
it
when
it
swings
,
else
it
may
box
his
ears
and
pitch
him
headlong
overboard
.
One
of
the
attending
harpooneers
now
advances
with
a
long
,
keen
weapon
called
a
boarding-sword
,
and
watching
his
chance
he
dexterously
slices
out
a
considerable
hole
in
the
lower
part
of
the
swaying
mass
Into
this
hole
,
the
end
of
the
second
alternating
great
tackle
is
then
hooked
so
as
to
retain
a
hold
upon
the
blubber
,
in
order
to
prepare
for
what
follows
.
Whereupon
,
this
accomplished
swordsman
,
warning
all
hands
to
stand
off
,
once
more
makes
a
scientific
dash
at
the
mass
,
and
with
a
few
sidelong
,
desperate
,
lunging
,
slicings
,
severs
it
completely
in
twain
;
so
that
while
the
short
lower
part
is
still
fast
,
the
long
upper
strip
,
called
a
blanket-piece
,
swings
clear
,
and
is
all
ready
for
lowering
.
The
heavers
forward
now
resume
their
song
,
and
while
the
one
tackle
is
peeling
and
hoisting
a
second
strip
from
the
whale
,
the
other
is
slowly
slackened
away
,
and
down
goes
the
first
strip
through
the
main
hatchway
right
beneath
,
into
an
unfurnished
parlor
called
the
blubber-room
.
Into
this
twilight
apartment
sundry
nimble
hands
keep
coiling
away
the
long
blanket-piece
as
if
it
were
a
great
live
mass
of
plaited
serpents
.
And
thus
the
work
proceeds
;
the
two
tackles
hoisting
and
lowering
simultaneously
;
both
whale
and
windlass
heaving
,
the
heavers
singing
,
the
blubber-room
gentlemen
coiling
,
the
mates
scarfing
,
the
ship
straining
,
and
all
hands
swearing
occasionally
,
by
way
of
assuaging
the
general
friction
.
I
have
given
no
small
attention
to
that
not
unvexed
subject
,
the
skin
of
the
whale
.
I
have
had
controversies
about
it
with
experienced
whalemen
afloat
,
and
learned
naturalists
ashore
.
My
original
opinion
remains
unchanged
;
but
it
is
only
an
opinion
.
The
question
is
,
what
and
where
is
the
skin
of
the
whale
.
Already
you
know
what
his
blubber
is
.
That
blubber
is
something
of
the
consistence
of
firm
,
close-grained
beef
,
but
tougher
,
more
elastic
and
compact
,
and
ranges
from
eight
or
ten
to
twelve
and
fifteen
inches
in
thickness
.
Now
,
however
preposterous
it
may
at
first
seem
to
talk
of
any
creature
's
skin
as
being
of
that
sort
of
consistence
and
thickness
,
yet
in
point
of
fact
these
are
no
arguments
against
such
a
presumption
;
because
you
can
not
raise
any
other
dense
enveloping
layer
from
the
whale
's
body
but
that
same
blubber
;
and
the
outermost
enveloping
layer
of
any
animal
,
if
reasonably
dense
,
what
can
that
be
but
the
skin
?
True
,
from
the
unmarred
dead
body
of
the
whale
,
you
may
scrape
off
with
your
hand
an
infinitely
thin
,
transparent
substance
,
somewhat
resembling
the
thinnest
shreds
of
isinglass
,
only
it
is
almost
as
flexible
and
soft
as
satin
;
that
is
,
previous
to
being
dried
,
when
it
not
only
contracts
and
thickens
,
but
becomes
rather
hard
and
brittle
.
I
have
several
such
dried
bits
,
which
I
use
for
marks
in
my
whale-books
.
It
is
transparent
,
as
I
said
before
;
and
being
laid
upon
the
printed
page
,
I
have
sometimes
pleased
myself
with
fancying
it
exerted
a
magnifying
influence
.
At
any
rate
,
it
is
pleasant
to
read
about
whales
through
their
own
spectacles
,
as
you
may
say
.
But
what
I
am
driving
at
here
is
this
.
That
same
infinitely
thin
,
isinglass
substance
,
which
,
I
admit
,
invests
the
entire
body
of
the
whale
,
is
not
so
much
to
be
regarded
as
the
skin
of
the
creature
,
as
the
skin
of
the
skin
,
so
to
speak
;
for
it
were
simply
ridiculous
to
say
,
that
the
proper
skin
of
the
tremendous
whale
is
thinner
and
more
tender
than
the
skin
of
a
new-born
child
.
But
no
more
of
this
.
Assuming
the
blubber
to
be
the
skin
of
the
whale
;
then
,
when
this
skin
,
as
in
the
case
of
a
very
large
Sperm
Whale
,
will
yield
the
bulk
of
one
hundred
barrels
of
oil
;
and
,
when
it
is
considered
that
,
in
quantity
,
or
rather
weight
,
that
oil
,
in
its
expressed
state
,
is
only
three
fourths
,
and
not
the
entire
substance
of
the
coat
;
some
idea
may
hence
be
had
of
the
enormousness
of
that
animated
mass
,
a
mere
part
of
whose
mere
integument
yields
such
a
lake
of
liquid
as
that
.
Reckoning
ten
barrels
to
the
ton
,
you
have
ten
tons
for
the
net
weight
of
only
three
quarters
of
the
stuff
of
the
whale
's
skin
.
In
life
,
the
visible
surface
of
the
Sperm
Whale
is
not
the
least
among
the
many
marvels
he
presents
.
Almost
invariably
it
is
all
over
obliquely
crossed
and
re-crossed
with
numberless
straight
marks
in
thick
array
,
something
like
those
in
the
finest
Italian
line
engravings
.
But
these
marks
do
not
seem
to
be
impressed
upon
the
isinglass
substance
above
mentioned
,
but
seem
to
be
seen
through
it
,
as
if
they
were
engraved
upon
the
body
itself
.
Nor
is
this
all
.
