The boys tried blubber once, but had to give it up.
All the ice had been melted, and a good deal of the seal blubber burnt up.
The seal blubberwas at length expended, and but a small quantity of wood remained to keep the stove alive.
The last pieces of seal blubber had been expended, and but one small cask of water remained.
As rapidly as possible it was cut up, the best part of the blubber being taken on board, and stowed away in the bows.
The seamen's knives were quickly at work, and the flesh and blubber were cut off and carried away in triumph to be laid at the doctor's feet.
If we can secure the blubber we shall be no longer in want of fuel.
To live in a snow hut, and eat blubber and drink train-oil?
They were queer little fellows, clad in furs from head to foot, and were fat and oily-looking, as indeed anyone might be who ate blubber three times a day: but otherwise they were apparently much like boys all over the world.
Here they obtainedblubber enough to set all their lamps alight, besides a few scraps of meat for their children and themselves.
For dinner I fried a highly successful steak, for supper I made blood-pancakes fried in blubber with sugar, unsurpassed in flavour.
Jack took a pike, (an instrument of pointed iron, used to handle blubber with,) and threw it with great force at a pig.
Then comes the process of what whalemen call "Cutting in," which is the separating and securing the fat or blubber of the whale.
Strips of blubber varying from three inches to a foot in length and an inch thick circulate about the hut.
The annual ship, Mariane, had arrived at Proven, and Carlie Mossyn had come up to get the year's supply ofblubber from Kinqatok.
He said the village was only a short distance up the bay, where was plenty of blubber and meat, which we might have if we would allow him to enter our "oomiak" and pilot us there!
Our food was sufficient for not more than two weeks, and our fuel of blubber for the lamp only was but enough for eight or ten days.
John put out his smoking fire, at the Angekok's request, and used his blubber in cooking a good joint of the bear meat.
So when Kalutunah came back we proposed to him through Petersen to purchase blubberand bear meat with our treasures of needles, knives, etc.
There was now nothing to burn except what little seal blubber they could spare for that purpose.
At sundown Petersen came in with eight sea-fowl, so we celebrated the occasion with a stew of fresh game, cooked in our stove with the staves of our blubber kegs, and we added to our meal a pot of hot coffee.
In case the claimant appears during the process of cutting, and a mark is found, he has a right to cut off the blubber square with the plankshear, and take what is below it, but can claim nothing that has been raised above it.
It is not of much value, as it furnishes far less blubber than the common Whale, and the baleen or whalebone is so short as to be useless.
The blubber supplies a small quantity of very fine oil, and the Greenlanders are very partial to the flesh.
But, because we were saucy and greedy, we were all turned into mollys, to eat whale's blubber all our days.
We've eaten blubberenough for to-day, and we'll e'en work out a bit of our time by helping the lad.
The huge black Shankela, with blubber lip and bloodshot eye, is resting for a moment against the broken wall, and stretching a brawny limb which might have supported the bully Hercules himself.
The whole part of the blubber above water being cut off, the body was further turned round, so as to expose a new portion; and, this being stripped off, another turn to the body was given.
It must be done," cried Sandy; "heave overboard the blubber and skins, better get back to the ship with an empty boat than not get back at all.
So well satisfied was the captain with the result of our chase, that, soon after the blubber and skins had been stowed away, he ordered the two boats to be prepared for another chase.
The object of this was to prevent the body from sinking, when its brethren would have devoted their attention to its remains instead of to the blubber with which the hooks were baited.
Andrew told me that the whale had been towed up alongside, but that, before half the blubber had been cut off, they had been compelled to cast it adrift.
Should the worst come to the worst, we must contrive to get there, and look out for some of the people, who we had heard say are good natured enough, though rather too fond of blubber to make them pleasant messmates in a small hut.
A lamp of walrus' blubber or bear's grease would be sufficient tor warm it at night, provided that the walls were thick enough to keep out the cold.
Scarcely had we got the blubber stowed away than it again began to blow hard, but we were still able to steer northward, a constant look-out being kept for the ice.
The blubber was then cut off by spades and large knives, parallel cuts being made from end to end, and then divided by cross cuts into pieces about half a ton each.
A large mass of meat and blubber from a walrus which had just before been caught, was placed in the centre, when our friends, seating themselves, cut off long strips of blubber, and applied the ends to their mouths.
For because, do ye see," he remarked, "the mollies have as great a liking for blubber as those old fellows had.
Of a piece of blubber also, with a piece of rope-yarn stuck in it, we formed our lamps, and it produced a very good light.
Of sea-elephants’ blubber we made our fires, and their bones laid across on some stones formed grates to lay the blubber on.
We also made a fire of some blubber under our boat, and by it we dried our clothes, and made ourselves more comfortable.
We have had some trouble with our blubber stove and got the hut very full of smoke on Saturday night.
We killed a young one and carried a good deal of the meat and some of the blubber back with us.
With a satisfactory blubber stove it would never be necessary to carry fuel on a coast journey, and we shall deserve well of posterity if we can perfect one.
Cherry-Garrard is experimenting in stone huts and withblubber fires--all with a view to prolonging the stay at Cape Crozier.
We found two seals on it to-day and killed them--thus getting a good supply of meat for the dogs and some more blubber for our fire.
They make large deposits of the blubber and meat obtained in the fall, on which they live during the winter.
The wick consists of hair of Eryophorum or of dried moss rubbed down with a little blubber so as to be inflammable.
At the same time this stick serves to light other lamps (or pipes), the burnt point being put into the blubber and then kindled.
Their stock of blubber and deer meat is sufficient to last them during the greater part of the winter.
The Tornit could not clean the sealskins so well as the Inuit, but worked them up with part of the blubber attached.
Wherever they killed a deer or musk ox they made deposits of the meat and carefully put up the walrus blubber in sealskin bags for use during the winter.
The hair and the blubber are removed from these cylindrical rings, from which lines are made by cutting spirally, a strip seventy or eighty feet long being thus obtained.
Their tents were erected on Uglariaq, whence seals were pursued, and they began at once to make blubber deposits (p.
Later in summer, when they begin to shed their fur, they lose almost all their blubber and sink when shot; therefore they must be hunted with the harpoon and the float.
The whole vessel is filled with blubber as high as the wick, which is spread along the straight side of the vessel.
The skins of seals furnish the material for summer garments and for the tent; their flesh is almost the only food, and their blubber the indispensable fuel during the long dark winter.
As some mention is made of blubber deposits at Netchillik (p.
Since the whale fishery has become unprofitable the stations have followed the business of collecting seal blubber and skins, which they buy from the Eskimo.
She always watched from the hilltop for his return, and if she saw that he had been unsuccessful, she begged from her neighbors blubber for his food.
Once upon a time the Inuit had killed a whale and were busy cutting it up and carrying the meat and the blubber to their huts.
In winter the blubberbefore being used is frozen, after which it is thoroughly beaten.
The fat or blubber of a seal lies in one sheet over the meat, about two inches in thickness, and not at all mixed with it, as is the case with other animals.
They now stretched the skin tight with nails on the door of the hovel to dry, and Sally, cutting the blubber into small pieces, put it on the fire to render.
This Seal crawls with difficulty on the land, and as the animals move "the vast body trembles like a great bag of jelly, owing to the mass of blubber by which the whole animal is invested, and which is as thick as it is in a whale.
You to haunt with squalid negroes, blubber lips, and monkey faces.
Daggett had taken to pieces and brought with him the running part of a common country wagon, which was soon found of vast service in transporting the skins and blubber across the rocks.
