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New Bedford
Hoisting The Lower Jaw Of A Whale
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A whaling ship is stopped and a whale is being cut up in pieces to be processed.
It would be impossible to hoist a full grown whale aboard so they had to use blubber hooks
and long knives as well as long poles with a blade attached to chop into the whale
