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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN 
the chopt blubber off from the block downe into the shallop; 
out of the w ch it is taken againe w th a copper ladle, and filled 
into a great tubb, w ch hangs upon the arme of a gibbet that is 
made to tourne to and againe between the blubber-boat and 
the coppers. This tubb containeth as much blubber as will 
serue one of the coppers at one boiling; and therfore, so soon 
as it is emptied, it is presentlie filled againe, that it maie be 
