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3IABINE MA3IMALS OF THE NOBTH-WESTERN COAST. 



diagram of Bowliead); one of the cutting -tackles is then hooked or shackled into 

 the ring at H ; the fall to the tackle is tlien taken to the windlass and hove taut, 

 Avhich brings the whale fairly on its side; then, with a cutting -spado, a hole is 

 cut in the root of the lip at F, and a scarf is cut along the lower jaw-bone from 

 E to D. A blubber -hook being shackled to the second cutting- tackle, it is over- 



Head- Strap. 



hauled down, and hooked into the hole in the lip, and the tackle is then hauled 

 taut by means of the windlass, and a man with a cutting -spade cuts the lip from 

 the jaw-bone as it is being hoisted up; and when coming to the end of the jaw, 

 near D. it is cut off and hove in on deck. A scarf is then cut through the blub- 



Throat- Chain Toggle. 



Toggle. 



ber, across one side of the head forward of the eye, 

 around under the lin, and across the body ; and the 

 fin is then raised by the first cutting -tackle, which 

 is the starting-point of the first blanket - piece ; the 

 "knuckle-joint" being disconnected from the shoulder- 

 blade with the "piece" from the body by cutting the 

 tendons, which connect between the flesh and the Idubber. This is called "leaning 

 up;" and when the piece is hove up, so as to bring the whale's back up, the 

 "head-strap" is rove through the spout-holes between the skull-bone and the 

 blubljer, as seen in the diagram at GG ; then with an axe the skull is cut through 

 to the spout -holes, on one side. This being done, the blanket -piece is raised still 

 higher, and the other cutting- tackle is hooked to the head -strap and hove taut; 

 when the skull -bone is cut on the other side, and the head with the baleen 

 attached is hove up and lowered on deck. As soon as the piece comes high 



