. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. d aboutthe slaughter in a well regulated manner. Eachman carried a spruce pole, on the end of whichwas a sort of boat hook called a * gaff, and eachalso had a tow rope. The method of proceedingwas as follows: A company would go in a certain direction andthen scatter. A man would kill four or five white-coats by hitting them on the head with his would pull them together and sculp them, thatis, with his sculping knife he would make anincision on the under smface of the body, its en-tire length, through the skin and fat. Now theskin, with its
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. d aboutthe slaughter in a well regulated manner. Eachman carried a spruce pole, on the end of whichwas a sort of boat hook called a * gaff, and eachalso had a tow rope. The method of proceedingwas as follows: A company would go in a certain direction andthen scatter. A man would kill four or five white-coats by hitting them on the head with his would pull them together and sculp them, thatis, with his sculping knife he would make anincision on the under smface of the body, its en-tire length, through the skin and fat. Now theskin, with its subcutaneous fat, was very looselj^adherent to the rest of the body of the youngseal, so with a very fcAv sweeps of the knife thebody was separated and thrown away. He thenmade a few holes along each side of the sculp,which was oblong, and through these laced histow rope. When the four or five had been thusarranged, he towed them to a selected pan, wherethey were piled with the others, and when theseals in the immediate neighborhood had been. Holloway, St. Johns, NUtl. Establishing a Pan 1 iiMi-Lr^^^^ ^-^^^.a^ ^ -- 1 V \ Bli
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