Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 73
through its mass, intowhich the strap of the second cut-ting tackle was inserted, and secured by passing a hugetoggle of oak through its eye. The second tacklewas then hove taut, and the jaw, with a large piece ofblubber attached, was cut off from the body with aboarding-knife, a tool not unlike a… … 1. Blubber Hook. 2. Cutting Tackletoggled to theBlanket Piece. 3. Fin Chain, Our First Whale 51 cut down diagonally into the blubber on the body,which the purchase ripped off in a broad strip or^ blanket about five feet wide and a foot thick.Meanwhile the other two officers carved away vigor-ously…
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