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1Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled
2forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange,
3enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers. Not the wondrous
4cistern in the whale's huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower jaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail;
5none of these would so surprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone,--longer than a Kentuckian is tall,
6nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and jet-black as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg. And an idol, indeed, it is; or,
7rather, in old times, its likeness was. Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and
8for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol, and burnt it for an abomination at the
9brook Kedron, as darkly set forth in the 15th chapter of the First Book of Kings. Look at the sailor, called the mincer,
10who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed
11shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field. Extending it upon the
12forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This
13done he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to double its
14diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the rigging, to dry. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some
15three feet of it, towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two slits for arm-holes at the other end, he
16lengthwise slips himself bodily into it. The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his
17calling. Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar
18functions of his office. That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is
19conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into
20which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk. Arrayed in decent black; occupying a
21conspicuous pulpit; intent on bible leaves; what a candidate for an archbishopric, what a lad for a Pope were this
22mincer! *Bible leaves! Bible leaves! This is the invariable cry from the mates to the mincer. It enjoins him to be
23careful, and cut his work into as thin slices as possible, inasmuch as by so doing the business of boiling out the oil
24is much accelerated, and its quantity considerably increased, besides perhaps improving it in quality.
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