Translation 2783

Cuttinfr un a sperm whale carcass on the central deck.
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Sometims,
before this operation, the sperm whale's head is separated from the trunk •
by means of winches and windlasses and brouL;ht to a desinated area (the
head may also be processed without being. separated). The head is div-
ided with a• flensing knife, while being pulled by a winch or a windlass,
into an upper part (spermaceti-bearing) and a lower part (upper part
with attached subcutaneous blubber). no bones of the upper jaw are cut
into several pieces with a power-driven saw.
The spermaceti-bearing
mart of the head is cut. ut by Lleans of fleneing knives and windlasses
into the spermaceti sac with xat capsule and the alveolar blubber, by
cutting through the soft tissues of the head and the subcutaneous.
blubber. The alveolar.blubber is further cut up into two or three
pieces, depending on the size of the head, and these pieces are put
into the oil-extraction boiler. The spermaceti sac with the oil capsule .
is nomnt±mme usually put into the boiler whole, but is . sometimes cut .
into two pieces.
to that for baleen whales.
The cutting-ut of the rest of the carcass is similar
DRESSING WHITE WHALE CARCASSES
• The carcass of a white whale is usually hung ut for dressing on
board a whaling schooner (Fig. 86). First the flippers are cut off with
an axe. Then longitudinal cuts are made on the dorsal and ventral sides
from the blow-hole to the tail. The skin on the head is not cut in two,
but is taken off toFether with the hide and blubber from the two sides.
Fig. 86_ Dressing a
white whale carcass,
Puc. 86. Pamemi