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reesetee Stop heaving those sighs! You'll put someone's eye out! Aug 7, 2008
chained_bear Nothing, I was just being a dork. I'm jealous because you found the time to read the book before I did. *heaves enormous sigh* Aug 7, 2008
dontcry Mmmmm! I'll save a place on the hammock! Aug 7, 2008
yarb I look forward to studying the scripture with you, dontcry.
nb. What's this dink business? Aug 7, 2008
dontcry Yarb, darling, you're just basking in the "Moby Dick Or The Whale" afterglow! Seriously, I could take it or leave it. Having said that, I do own a 1930 edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent in excellent (actually, almost perfect) condition...
When you come to The Porch, I'll let you look at it! Aug 6, 2008
she Oho! Furthermore,
"The Train-oyl runs into the Warehouse into a Vatt, whereout they fill it into Cardels or Vessels..A Cardel or Hogshead holds 64 Gallons." (1694 Acc. Sev. Late Voy., 1711 ed.)
"The Dutch..took 57,590 whales, yielding 3,105,596 quardeelen of oil..A quardeel of oil contains..from 77 to 90 imperial standard gallons." (1857 Polar Seas & Regions, ed. 20)
—Hot damn. Aug 6, 2008
reesetee Yarb has to be right. I mean, have you ever seen a copy of that tome? Aug 6, 2008
chained_bear Ohhh... okay. I misunderstood.
Boy, you really like Melville, huh? the dink...
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Can we keep quardeel at least? C'mon. It's cool. Aug 6, 2008
yarb What do you mean, the stuff Melville left out? The whole point of Moby-Dick is that nothing is left out. It contains everything. Stuff published after is just exegesis. Stuff claiming to have been published before - as qroqqa's source - is an elaborate hoax perpetrated by a conniving scientific elite. Aug 6, 2008
chained_bear Wow, what a word!
p.s. Yarb... what about all the stuff Melville left out of his book? (the dink...) Or was published after his book? Doesn't that stuff count? Pleeease? Aug 6, 2008
qroqqa If she procured a cargo of 100 quardeelen of oil, she was entitled to no additional bounty; but for every quardeel* she fell short, an additional bounty of 50 f. was due.
* The quardeel of oil contains 12 steeken Dutch, or 60. 27 gallons English.
—William Scoresby, 1820, An Account of the Arctic Regions, Edinburgh Aug 6, 2008
yarb If it's not in Moby-Dick, I don't see how it can be genuine whaling terminology. Aug 6, 2008
she A hogshead containing, in the 17th c., 64 gallons, used in the Dutch whaling trade. Also cardel, kardel. Aug 6, 2008