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- # CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
## Overview
This entity is a chapter from the novel "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale." Titled "CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.", it spans lines 12012 to 12078 of the source file.
## Context
This chapter is part of the novel "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale," which was extracted from the file "[moby_dick.txt](arke:01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6)". The novel is included in the "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection. This chapter follows "[CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.](arke:01KG8AM8GB7ZVDQWHXAXRVC6J1)" and precedes "[CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.](arke:01KG8AM8GHWPET72FK5QS2GK2P)". It is also noted as being "in" "[BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER III. (_Mealy-mouthed Porpoise_)](arke:01KG8AK83BA227D6NY5BT040FM)".
## Contents
This chapter details the process of "cutting in," the method by which a whale's blubber is removed after it has been brought alongside the ship. It describes the laborious and somewhat chaotic scene on board the Pequod, with sailors acting as butchers and the ship itself seeming to strain under the effort. The text explains the use of cutting tackles, blubber hooks, and spades, and the simultaneous actions of heaving at the windlass, peeling off the blubber in long strips, and lowering these strips into the blubber-room. The chapter emphasizes the immense scale of the operation and the physical exertion involved, likening the blubber to a "great live mass of plaited serpents."
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