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A canvas tube, called a eull, is then led down to the 
hold. The kings then throw the blubber out of the 
flens gut. It is received by the krengers, who remove all 
the muscular parts called kreng. The harpooneers then 
slice off the skin, and the boat-steerers divide the blubber 
into blocks 4 inches in diameter. The line managers 
receive it in the hold by the eull, and put it in the 
casks through the bung-holes. Their cries were u let lob " 
when they wanted the blubber to come down, and " rip 
the eull" when it was to be stopped. In the early 
days of the fishery the making off was always done on 
shore. The jaw-bones, 25 feet long, were brought home 
to make posts and arches for gateways : still to be seen 
in the country round Hull and even further afield. 
It will be seen that the catching of a whale was not 
the mere harpooning with the attendant danger and 
excitement, but that it entailed a long and very hard 
day's work, with incessant labour and the exercise of 
much skill and intelligence. It was a splendid nursery 
for our seamen, combined with the dangers of ice 
navigation and the constant need for a bright look-out. 
In 1806 Captain Scoresby had his son with him on 
board the Resolution as Chief Officer. Both were good 
sailors and navigators and unrivalled as whaling officers. 
The son had the advantage of a better education, and was 
devoted to scientific research. Both were unostentatiously 
religious, as all our great Arctic heroes have been. 
In 1806, the Scoresbys determined to see how far 
north it was possible to go, entering the ice in 76 0 N. 
on the 28th of April. Captain Scoresby found the ice 
to be of extraordinary width and compactness. He 
pressed into a pack which, to ordinary apprehension, 
was impenetrable. There was a strong ice blink along 
the northern horizon which, to all minds on board but 
one, precluded hope. But Scoresby, narrowly scanning 
this ice blink from the crow's-nest, discerned a blueish 
grey streak below the ice blink, and closely skirting the 
horizon. He knew this to be an indication of open water 
beyond the pack. The watchful veteran detected another 
sign. He perceived occasionally a very slight motion of 
the water between the lumps of ice near the ship. He 
knew that this could only arise from a distant swell, 
