Chapter 95: Moby Dick

The chapter is titled "The Cassock", which is a full length robe worn by priests and others in a church. In this chapter the man wearing the cassock is slicing thin pieces of blubber to boil down to oil. Once again the harvesting of a whale is compared to a religious tradition/ceremony; Melville brings it out by the person cutting it need to do it very thinly so that it can be of a higher and greater quality/amount.