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three more irons into her, and then we account her 

 secure. 



' Then when she is neer tired with striving 

 and wearied with the boats and ropes, we lance her 

 with long Lances, the Irons and stands wereof are 

 about twelve or fourteen foot long, with which we 

 prick her to death ; and in killing her, many times 

 she staveth some of our boats, beating and flourishing 

 with her tayle above water, that the boats dare scarce 

 come nigh her, but oftentimes in an hours time she 

 is dispatched. Thus having killed her, our boats 

 tow her (all of them rowing one before another, one 

 fast to another like a team of Horses) to the ships 

 stern, where, after she hath layn twenty-four hours 

 we cut off the blubber, and take the finns (which we 

 commonly call the whalebone) and her tongue out of 

 her mouth, and with a great pair of slings and tackle, 

 we turn her round, and take all that is good off her, 

 and then we turn her carcass adrift and tow the 

 blubber (cut in pieces) to the shore where works 

 stand to mannure it. 



" Having made fast the blubber to the shore, we 

 have a Waterside-man who stands in a pair of boots, 

 to the middle leg in water, and flaweth such flesh as 

 is not clean from the blubber; Then we have two 

 men with a barrow, that when the Waterside man 

 hath cut it in pieces about two hundredweight, carry 

 it up to a stage standing by our Works, like a Table ; 

 then we have a man with a long knife, who we call a 

 Stage-cutter, who sliceth it into thin pieces about 

 halfe an inch thick, and a foot long or longer, and 



