Episode 520: The Tragedy of the Essex Part I - Thar She Blows!
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The Whale Blubber and Its Perfume
The whale blubber would be boiled in a process called trying out the whale. The smelly, thick, greasy black smoke created by this process smelled in Herman Melville's words, quote, like the left wing of the day of judgment and argument for the pit. One green hand described the trying is having the quality of a quote and describable uncouthness.
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