The home of half a dozen rooms was probably the most picturesque cabin within the valley, for Grandfather Rodman had built the roof with an overhang, giving the home the hospitable shadows of a bit of Swiss chalet. When immediately, your entire ship careens over on her side; each bolt in her starts just like the nail-heads of an outdated house in frosty weather; she trembles, quivers, and nods her frighted mast-heads to the sky. By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. One of the attending harpooneers now advances with a protracted, keen weapon known as a boarding-sword, and watching his likelihood he dexterously slices out a substantial hole in the lower part of the swaying mass. For the pressure constantly saved up by the windlass frequently retains the whale rolling over and over in the water, and because the blubber in a single strip uniformly peels off alongside the road referred to as the “scarf,” simultaneously reduce 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 on a regular basis being hoisted greater and better aloft till its upper finish grazes the primary-high; the men on the windlass then stop heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky, and each one current should take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else it might box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard.
Into this twilight house sundry nimble palms keep coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were an incredible stay 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 fingers swearing often, by the use of assuaging the overall friction. Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all fingers to stand off, once more makes a scientific sprint at the mass, and with a number of sidelong, determined, lunging slicings, severs it completely in twain; in order that whereas the brief lower part continues to be quick, the lengthy upper strip, called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all prepared for reducing. The end of the hawser-like rope winding by way of these intricacies, was then conducted to the windlass, and the large decrease block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to this block the nice blubber hook, weighing some one hundred pounds, was connected.
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