When he was even with him and had the fish's head against the bow he
could not believe his size. But he untied the harpoon rope from the
bitt, passed it through the fish's gills and out his jaws, made a turn
around his sword then passed the rope through the other gill, made
another turn around the bill and knotted the double rope and made it
fast to the bitt in the bow. He cut the rope then and went astern to
noose the tail. The fish had turned silver from his original purple and silver
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