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1It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The
2ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up
3ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods. In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous things
4comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and which no single man can possibly lift--this vast bunch of
5grapes was swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the strongest point anywhere above a
6ship's deck. The end of the hawser-like rope winding through these intricacies, was then conducted to the windlass, and
7the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one
8hundred pounds, was attached. And now suspended in stages over the side, Starbuck and Stubb, the mates, armed with their
9long spades, began cutting a hole in the body for the insertion of the hook just above the nearest of the two side-fins.
10This done, a broad, semicircular line is cut round the hole, the hook is inserted, and the main body of the crew
11striking up a wild chorus, now commence heaving in one dense crowd at the windlass. When instantly, the entire ship
12careens over on her side; every bolt in her starts like the nail-heads of an old house in frosty weather; she trembles,
13quivers, and nods her frighted mast-heads to the sky. More and more she leans over to the whale, while every gasping
14heave of the windlass is answered by a helping heave from the billows; till at last, a swift, startling snap is heard;
15with a great swash the ship rolls upwards and backwards from the whale, and the triumphant tackle rises into sight
16dragging after it the disengaged semicircular end of the first strip of blubber. Now as the blubber envelopes the whale
17precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped
18by spiralizing it. For the strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over
19in the water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the "scarf," simultaneously cut
20by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act
21itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top; the men at the
22windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down
23from the sky, and every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else it may box his ears and pitch
24him headlong overboard. One of the attending harpooneers now advances with a long, keen weapon called a boarding-sword,
25and watching his chance he dexterously slices out a considerable hole in the lower part of the swaying mass. Into this
26hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to
27prepare for what follows. Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all hands to stand off, once more makes a
28scientific dash at the mass, and with a few sidelong, desperate, lunging slicings, severs it completely in twain; so
29that while the short lower part is still fast, the long upper strip, called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all
30ready for lowering. The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second
31strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right
32beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room. Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep
33coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of plaited serpents. And thus the work proceeds; the
34two tackles hoisting and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the heavers singing, the blubber-room
35gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by way of assuaging the
36general friction.
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