112 WHALING AND FISHING. 



CHAPTER VII. 



a new Boat We raise Whales again Our Boat geti 

 fast The Whale takes out the Line The Mate despairs- 

 Sunset The third Mate refastens The Mate kills the 

 Whale" There's Blood "The Flurry Getting a Fish along 

 side Cutting in Wrenching off the Head The Teeth The 

 Junk The Case Extraordinary gathering of Sharks 

 Their Rapacity Trying out Horse-pieces Blanket-pieces 

 Mincing Division of Labor A Night Scene Nauseating 

 Labor Picking out fat-lean Stowing down the Oil Clear- 

 ing up Decks. 



OUR first labor, on the following morning, was 

 to fit a new boat, to replace the one lost the day 

 before. There were, as before mentioned, three 

 spare boats overhead, and one of these was now 

 turned over, and swung to the davits. It required 

 the labor of several days from our boat's crew,' 

 ere we were once more so comfortably fitted as 

 in our old boat. There were lines to be stretched 

 and coiled, and re-coiled. There were irons and 

 lances to be ground sharp, and fixed to their poles. 

 There were numberless little beckets and cleats 

 to be nailed and fastened in numberless little out 

 of the way nooks and crevices about the bow and 

 stern. There were thole-pins and thole-pin mats 

 to fit. There was a boat-spade, and boat-hatchet, 



