IN THE YEAR 1613. 
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readie to be putt into the copper when the frittires are taken 
out. Theise frittires (as wee call them) are the small peices 
of chopt blubber, w ch ; when the oile is sufficiently boiled, will 
look browne, as if they were fried; and they are taken out 
of the coppers, together w th some of the oile, by copper ladles, 
and put into a wicker basket that stands ouer another shallop 
w ch is placed on the other side of the fournaces, and serues as 
a cooler to receaue the oile being drayned thorowe the said 
basketts. And this shallop, because it receaues the oile hott 
out of the two coppers, is kept continuallie half full of water; 
w ch is not onelie a meanes to coole the oile before it runnes 
into cask, but also to dense it from soot and drosse w ch 
discends to the bottome of the boat. And out of this shallop 
the oile runneth into a long trough, or gutter, of wood, and 
therby is conveyed into butts and hogsheads; w ch , being 
filled, are bung’d vp, marked, and rowl’d by, and others 
sett in their place. Then is the bung taken out againe, that 
the oile maie coole; for notwithstanding ye shallop is half 
full of water, yet, the coppers being continuallie plied, the 
oile keeps very hott in the boat, and runs also hott into 
the cask, w ch sometimes is an occasion of great leakage. 
Now concerning the finnes. 
When the whale lies floateing at the sterne of the ship, 
where he is cutt up, they cut of his head, containing his 
toung and his finnes, coihonlie called whalbone ; and by a 
boat, or shallop, they towe it so neare the shoare as it can 
come, and ther lett it lie till the water flowe againe: for, at 
high waters, it is drawen further and further upon the shoare 
by crabs and capstowes ther placed for that purpose, untill, 
at a lowe water, men maie come to cutt out the finnes; w cl1 
thing they doe w th liatchetts, by 5 or 6 finnes at once. And 
theise are trailed further vp from the shoare-side, and then 
are seuered ech one from another w th hatchetts, and by one, 
at once, are laid upon a fir-deale, or other board, raised up a 
convenient height for a man to stand at, who scrapeth off the 
