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The Narwhal. 



on board by means of the fore spek tackle ; a soft 

 outside coating on the skin, called by the whalers 

 gum, was scraped off with iron scrapers called gum 

 knives, and the blubber taken off in long' strips, 

 yielding altogether about five or six hundredweight. 



Narwhal, or " Unie," and Bear. 



The horn was on the left side of the nose, and on 

 the right was a small one, not visible until after the 

 blubber had been removed from the skull ; this latter 

 was about twelve inches long. The belly of the fish 

 was of a beautiful pure white colour. Whalers are 

 most fastidious in a certain way, with regard to their 

 eating, rarely partaking of any thing but what is 



