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MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. 
diagram of Bowheacl); one of the cutting- tackles is then hooked or shackled into 
the ring at H ; the fall to the tackle is then taken to the windlass and hove taut, 
which brings the whale fairly on its side; then, with a cutting -spade, a hole is 
cut in the root of the lip at F, and a scarf is cut along the lower jaw-bone from 
E to D. A blubber- hook being shackled to the second cutting- tackle, it is over- 
Head- Strap. 
hauled down, and hooked into the hole in the lip, and the tackle is then hauled 
taut by means of the windlass, and a man with a cutting- spade cuts the lip from 
the jaw-bone as it is being hoisted up; and when coming to the end of the jaw, 
near D. it is cut off and hove in on deck. A scarf is then cut through the blub- 
Throat- Chain Toggle. 
Toggle. 
ber, across one side of the head forward of the eye, 
around under the fin, and across the body ; and the 
fin is then raised by the first cutting -tackle, which ■ 
is the starting-point of the first blanket - piece ; the 
"knuckle-joint" being disconnected from the shoulder- 
blade with the "piece" from the body by cutting the 
tendons, which connect between the flesh and the blubber. This is called "leaning 
up ;" and when the piece is hove up, so as to bring the whale's back up, the 
"head -strap" is rove through the spout -holes between the skull -bone and the 
blubber, as seen in the diagram at GGr ; then with an axe the skull is cut through 
to the spout -holes, on one side. This being done, the blanket -piece is raised still 
higher, and the other cutting -tackle is hooked to the head-strap and hove taut; 
when the skull -bone is cut on the other side, and the head with the baleen 
attached is hove up and lowered on deck. As soon as the piece comes high 
