Identifier: marinemammalsofn00scam (find matches)
Title: The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Scammon, Charles Melville, 1825-1911
Subjects: Marine mammals Cetacea Sealing Whaling Whales Dolphins
Publisher: San Francisco, J.H. Carmany New York, Putnam
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ain. Bowhead and Right Whale), and is then hauled in through the fluke-chain chock,which is at the bow, and well secured to the sampson-post, the head of the animalbeing toward the stern. The cutting-tackles, which comprise two heavy purchases,are then sent aloft, and shackled to chain or rope pendants at the mainmast-head, where they are placed in position by rope guys from the foremast-head, andthe falls of the cutting-tackles are then taken forward to the windlass. The cut-ting-stage, which is so constructed as to admit of the officers standing upon itimmediately over the carcass when using the cutting-spades, is put over the sideand lowered into position; meanwhile, the rest of the cutting-gear is being got inreadiness, which consists of toggles, spades, boarding and leaning knives, gaffs,pikes, blubber-hooks, head-straps, fin-chain, throat-toggle, head-axes, etc. If theprize be a Right Whale, or Bowhead, the fin-chain is put on the fin, as at B (in THE AMERICAN WHALE-FISHERY. 233
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Marine Mammals. —30. 234 MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. diagram of Bowheacl); one of the cutting-tackles is then hooked or shackled intothe ring at H ; the fall to the tackle is then taken to the windlass and hove taut,which brings the whale fairly on its side; then, with a cutting-spade, a hole iscut in the root of the lip at F, and a scarf is cut along the lower jaw-bone fromE to D. A blubber-hook being shackled to the second cutting-tackle, it is over-

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