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throws it into a Cooler, we call a slicing-cooler, 

 betwixt which and another cooler (called a chopping- 

 cooler) we have men called choppers placed ; five or 

 six men, who upon blocks cut about a foot and halfe 

 square (made of the tayle of the whale, which is very 

 tough) do take the sliced blubber and chop it very 

 small and thin, not above a quarter of an inch thick, 

 and an inch or two long; and thrust it off from the 

 blocks into the Chopping-cooler, which holds two or 

 three tuns. 



" Then upon a platforme is built a Copper-hole, 

 about four foot high, to which there is a stokehole, 

 and on this Copper-hole is a broad Copper which 

 containeth about a Butt, hanged with mortar and 

 made tight round the edges. And over the stokehole, 

 upon an Arch, stands a Chimney which draws up the 

 smoke and flame. And we have one we call a 

 Tubfiller who with a Ladle of Copper, whose handle 

 is about six foot long, taketh the Chopt blubber out 

 of the chopping-cooler and puts it into a hogshead 

 made with straps for that purpose, and he drawes 

 this hogshead from the chopping-cooler's side to the 

 Copper and putteth it in ; under which having once 

 kindled a fire of wood and boiled a Copper or two 

 of Oyle, the scruffe which remains after the oyle is 

 boiled out of the blubber (which we call fritters) we 

 throw under the Copper, which makes a fierce fire 

 and so boyleth the Oyle out of the blubber without 

 any other fewell. 



' Then when we find that it is boyled enough, we 

 have two men which we call coppermen who with 



