Identifier: voyagetoarctici00lind (find matches)
Title: A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Lindsay, David Moore, 1862-
Subjects: Aurora (Ship) Whaling
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s was standing by, so with the otherboats we pulled in the direction the fish had gone,and as we were getting close to more loose ice,those of us who were rowing and consequentlylooking astern saw the fast boat—which hadbeen well down by the bow—right herself and weknew that the iron had drawn. We pulled awayhowever in the hope of again getting fast, butthis whale was only seen once more, a long wayoff, and after a hard row through loose ice we gaveup. The ship had followed and she now pickedus up. As the wind had gone down we sailedback towards the south side and made fast to thesolid floe, getting our bran boats out before teatime. We picked up the fast boat on the way, shehaving her lines on board. The weather lookedvery settled at bedtime and the unusual exertionof the past two days made me sleep well. July 7til. Monday. Summer had returned bymorning and the making off had already begunwhen I came on deck. We were lying almost op-posite the mouth of Admiralty Inlet and fast to
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Copyright by Underwood and Underwood, N Y. Main Deck of a Whaler while Flensing IN THE WHALER AURORA 165 a nice straight floe edge with not a bit of looseice any place. There was more life on deck at the making off than there was at the flensing andevery one was busy. The blubber had been cutinto pieces two or three feet square and put downthe main hatch. These big cubes of a faint orangecolor were taken on deck with the winch, and anypieces of adherent flesh being removed they werecut into blocks of a few pounds each. Along eachside of the deck stood uprights; on the top ofeach was a plate with spikes called a clash, andbeside each stood a harpooner with a long sharpknife. A block of blubber was lifted by a manwith clash hooks and stuck on the clash spikes,with the skin up. The harpooner cut the skinoff and the piece was then thrown into a heap infront of the speck trough. The speck trough, whichwas about two and a half feet square, was placedacross the deck over the hatch; forward o

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