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chapter-069		chapter-069			.txt	text/plain	746	23	68	It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one whale, while every gasping heave of the windlass is answered by a the disengaged semicircular end of the first strip of blubber. line called the "scarf," simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck out a considerable hole in the lower part of the swaying mass. this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by	./cache/chapter-069.txt	./txt/chapter-069.txt