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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN. 
hieing one oner another. They neuer goe farre vp from the 
water-side: and therfore the men that goe to kill them strike 
theise first w ch are next the water, that their dead bodies maie 
be a hinderance to barre the rest from escapeing; for they 
all make towards the water, without anie feare either of man 
or weapon that opposeth them. 
Theise also are killed w th launces w ch are verie broad¬ 
headed, to the end that they maie make the more mortall 
wound for the speedie killing of them, because they are so 
neare the water, and also manie in nomber; for, in some 
places, they will lie 400 or 500 morses all together. 
This sea-beast being dead, his teeth are taken out of his 
upper jawe; and his skin, or hide, is fleyed of him, first on 
the one side; and his fat or blubber, w ch lies next to his 
skinne aboue his flesh, is also taken off: and then is his other 
side tourned vp, and ye like againe done w th it. Then is the 
blubber put into cask, and carried to the choppers; and by 
them it is chopped, and put into the coppers; and ther it is 
tryed, and reduced to oile. 
