Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . s more of the nature of a wax ; the other whales areof a fatty nature. It makes the finest lubricant formodern machinery. The blow hole is on left side of this case the blowpipe from lungs going through it. And the jet of steamis thrown up two or three feet and forward, so a spermsblast is easily distinguished from that of the finner, Head of a Sperm Showing Skull which is bigger and straight up, say to twenty orthirty feet, or possibly forty feet, in the case of a largeBlue whale. The plan adopted in this case differs from the mostrecent whaler
Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . s more of the nature of a wax ; the other whales areof a fatty nature. It makes the finest lubricant formodern machinery. The blow hole is on left side of this case the blowpipe from lungs going through it. And the jet of steamis thrown up two or three feet and forward, so a spermsblast is easily distinguished from that of the finner, Head of a Sperm Showing Skull which is bigger and straight up, say to twenty orthirty feet, or possibly forty feet, in the case of a largeBlue whale. The plan adopted in this case differs from the mostrecent whalers; they either tow their prey ashore orinto harbour alongside great floating ship factories ofseveral thousand tons, to be cut up and boiled it was cut up at sea and the blubber taken onboard, and melted or cooked. The deck is now like a marble quarry, with greatwhite chunks of fat in the moonlight, and dusky figurescutting these into blocks of about a foot square to gointo the two pots. Steam is let into them at one hundred and sixty. HUNTING MIGHTY GAME 35 pounds pressure, and the cooker has to watch two tapsrunning from these, each now pouring out beautifullyfine sperm oil. He stands by the two pots on eitherside of the ship amidships, one to port, one to starboard ;now and then he dips a bright tin ladle into the oil thatkeeps running out into an open tank, and sniffs at it,and pours it back, examining its colour, which is likepale sherry. There is no smell actually about the cooking processtill the water that is formed in the pots by the con-densing steam has to be blown out of the bottoms ofthe pots. Then the blue sea gets a yellow scum and theatmosphere is pervaded far and near with the smell ofbeef-tea. The narwhal of the Arctic seas feeds on small cuttle-fish, only about a few inches across the spread of theirtentacles, and red prawns or shrimps. But the cachalotor sperm whale of the warm seas kills very large cuttle-fish. Large circular marks in their backs,
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