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a bag tliat is fixed to the end of the gutter, and is like unto 

 a pudding-bag, so that it reaches down into the ship ; out of 

 this bag the fiit runs down into a tub or Avoodeji funnel, 

 which they put upon empty vessels or cardels, as they call 

 them, and tlie men that are below fill them up with it, and 

 so it is kept until they try it up into train -oyl. When the 

 fat is cut off from one side of the ichale, before they turn 

 him, they cut out the whale-bone in one entire 2:)iece, and 

 this is so heavy that all the ship's crew hath enough to do to 

 pull it up. They make use for that purpose of a peculiar 

 sort of hooks, two whereof they fix on the sides and one on 

 the middle of it, very well provided with strong tackle ; and 

 afterwards they cut out the whalebone of the other side of the 

 fish, and draw it up also with pulleys into the ship, where it 

 is cut into such pieces as they bring it hither in. 



The Avhalebone doth only belong to the owners of the ship 

 and the others that run their hazard, whether they catch few 

 or many ichales. The rest, Avhich take their pay by the 

 month, receive their money when they come home Avhether 

 they have caught many or none, and the loss or gain falls 

 upon the merchants. 



The hooks that they crane up the whalebone withal are 

 made on purpose for it, like a beam of a pair of scales ; on 

 each end are two sharp points, which they knock in between 

 the Avhalebone ; in the middle of the beam is fastened a long 

 handle with a ring, whereon the ropes are fastened ; on this 

 handle there are fixed two other crooked hooks, like birds 

 claws ; in the ring where the ropes are fastened is another 

 crooked hook, at the top fastened by a ring, such a one as 

 Ave make use of here when we wind anything up by a crane; 

 but in the middle between these two hooks is fastened ano- 

 ther rope, which keeps the lowermost hook steddy ; the two 

 hindmost points are knock'd into the whalebone behind and 

 the two foremost short ones before, which hold the whale- 

 bone fast between them when it is wound or pulled up. 



