tallow

With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and follow the marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, or as if you had struck on a vein of gold, deep into the earth.

你斧头和铲子，探索这个矿藏，沿着那黄黄的似的、骨髓似的储藏，或者仿佛找到了金矿的矿苗似的，一直深入到地里去。

That's difficult for me to understand, however enlightened I may be with sun, moon, stearine, train oil, and tallow.

“我的身上——或者身子里——最近起了某种变化：磨石的活动有些异样。