IN THE YEAR 1613. 
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peices: for, whilest it hangeth thus in the crane, two men doe 
cutt it into little peices about a foot long and half a foot thick, 
and putt them into the foresaid vessel; from w ch it is carried 
to the choppers by two boies, who, w th little flesh-hooks, take in 
ech hand a peice, and so conveie it into tubbs, or ould casks, 
w ch stand behinde the choppers; out of w ch tubbs it is taken 
againe, and is laid for them, as they are readie to vse it, upon 
the same board they stand on. 
The choppers stand at the side of a shallop, w ch is raised 
from the ground, and sett vp of an equall height w th the cop¬ 
pers, and stands about two yards distant from the fournaces. 
Then a fir-deale is laid alongst the one side of the shallop, 
within-board; and upon it doe they sett their chopping-blocks, 
w rCh are made of the whale’s taile, or els of his swimming- 
finne. Nowe the blubber is laid readie for them by some 
apointed for that purpose, as before is sett downe, in such 
small peices as the boies doe bring from the crane. And so 
they take it up w th little hand-hooks, laieing it upon their 
blocks; where, w th chopping-kniues, they chop it into verye 
small peices, about an ynch and a halfe square. Then, w th a 
short thing of wood, made in fashion like a cole-rake, they put 
