White-Horse
White-horse is a substance obtained from the tapering part of the sperm whale and from the thicker portions of its flukes. Despite being tough with congealed tendons—a wad of muscle—it still contains oil. After being severed from the whale, white-horse is cut into portable oblong blocks before going to the mincer. The blocks resemble pieces of Berkshire marble in appearance.
Plum-Pudding
Plum-pudding refers to fragmentary pieces of the whale’s flesh that adhere to the blanket of blubber and participate in its unctuousness. The narrator describes it as a refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold, with an exceedingly rich, mottled tint featuring a bestreaked snowy and golden ground dotted with spots of deep crimson and purple. Despite reason, the narrator confesses to having stolen behind the foremast to taste it, comparing its flavor to what a royal cutlet from Louis le Gros might taste if killed on the first day after venison season coinciding with an unusually fine vintage of Champagne vineyards.
Slobgollion
Slobgollion is a singular, puzzling substance that appears during the sperm processing business. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy matter most frequently found in the tubs of sperm after prolonged squeezing and subsequent decanting. The narrator holds it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case coalescing together. The name is original to the whalemen, as is the nature of the substance itself.
Gurry
Gurry is a term properly belonging to right whalemen but sometimes used by sperm fishermen. It designates the dark, glutinous substance scraped from the back of the Greenland or right whale. This material covers the decks of those who hunt that ignoble Leviathan, though it appears incidentally in sperm whaling operations as well.
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