stripping off the blubber from a blue whale at Vancouver Island. Longitudinal incisions are 

 made along the side of the whale and the blubber torn off in great strips by the aid of the steam 

 winch. It requires only fifteen or twenty minutes to flense one side of a large whale 



Drawing up a blue whale at Vancouver Island. The blue whale, as far as is now known, is the 

 largest animal which has ever lived upon the earth or in the water 



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