After the whale is killed they cut off his tail; some keep the tail and finns, and hang them up at the outside of their ship, for that defends them from the ice when it presseth upon the ship ; the tail hinders the boat and its course, because it doth lye across, and that is the reason why they cut it off. Before the tail they fasten a piece of a rope, and the other end at the stern of the last sloop. There is in all four or five sloops fastened to one another behind, and so they row one behind the other to the great ship. “When they have brought the whale to the ship, they tye it with ropes fast to the ship; that part where the tail is cut off they fasten to the forepart of the ship, and the head towards the stern, about the middle, near the great shrouds of the mainmast on the larboard side of the ship. It is seldom that a whale doth reach farther than from the poop to the middle of the ship, except the vessels are very small.

By the larboard is to be understood that side of the ship that is at your right hand as you go from before towards the stern; but that side of the ship that is on your right hand as you go from the stern towards the forepart is called the starboard, because you go from the steer forward.