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one place to another. To compensate in 

 some degree, perhaps, for the laborious na- 

 ture of the office of the person who uses it, 

 he is honoured with the title of King. 



XX. Apparatus used in the Northern Whale-Fishery. 

 [Scale an inch to a foot.] 



1. Blubber-knife. 11.299. 



2. Chopping-knife. II. 309. 



3. Strand-knife. II. 299- 



4. Tail-knife. II. 233. 



5. Bone-geer. II. 300. 



6. Bone-wedge, II. 300. 



7. Mik or rest for the harpoon. II. 233. 



8. Third-hand. Used in flensing. 



9. Pick-haak. II. 299. 308. 



10. Closh, improved by my father. II. 308. 



11. Grapnel. II. 233. 



12. Ice-grapnel, used in warping. 



13. Krenging-hook. II. 308. 



14. Krenging-knife. II. 308. 



15. Spurs. II. 298. 



16. Axe. II. 233. 



17. Snatch-block. II. 233. 



XXI. Ice and fishing apparatus. [Scale an inch to a foot.] 



1. Ice-axe. II. 349. 



2, 3. Ice-anchors. II. 349- 



4. Bay ice-anchor. The lower part of this an- 



chor, near the crown, has a broad flat sur- 

 face, by which it takes hold of a large por- 

 tion of ice, and retains its hold, even in very 

 thin ice, under a considerable strain. [Ori- 

 ginal.] 



5. Blubber-pump. A pump used for taking 



the water out of such of the blubber casks 

 as are filled for ballast. It is somewhat 

 less in diameter than the bung-hole of the 



