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Archimedes threw himself off the ship and onto a whale that was headed for in the direction of a whaling vessel the pirates had passed earlier
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When the whale was caught, Archimedes hopped off the dying whale and joined the crew of whaling humans
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Their whale research seemed to involve puncturing the whale with several more holes than before
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Archimedes had never seen a humpback whale die from harpoons before and so added it to his memory files
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I was seven months pregnant at the time; I remember standing in the rain at Mum’s burial service feeling like a beached whale
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Wildlife includes boar, brown bear, lizard and whale
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It’s the whale capital of Central America, with 22
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And whale call sirens to blow the whistle
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Fourthly, Salt fish of all kinds, whale fins, whalebone, oil, and blubber, not caught by and cured on board British vessels, when imported into Great Britain, are subject to double aliens duty
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The tonnage bounties given to the white herring and whale fisheries may, perhaps, be considered as somewhat of this nature
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mammals - the blue whale
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The Roman returned with twenty-two hundred barrels of whale oil and
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One of the first things Jon learned was that whales supplied two important resources, whale oil and baleen
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Whale oil was used as a lamp fuel and for making candles, as there was no electricity, natural gas, or kerosene for lighting in those days
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Sperm whales offer the greatest amount of whale oil, and are the largest whales to have teeth
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were launched whenever a whale was sighted
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particularly another sail or more importantly, a whale
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The captain hoped it was a sperm whale which offers the greatest amount of whale oil
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Experienced whalers can tell different whale species by the size and shape of their spout
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The crew failed to catch the whale at
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The captain’s logbook records the different whale species and how many barrels of oil they produce
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A few days after the first whale was spotted, Jon heard another
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steadily toward the whale
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They realized it was a sperm whale,
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and there would be lots of whale oil from this one
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” This is what they called the event when a whale boat was
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dragged behind the whale at speeds up to twenty-five miles per
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whale until it lay exhausted on the surface
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“Chimney’s afire!” Jon helped to kill his first whale
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clear of the harpoon rope line when the sleigh ride begins, as he could get rope burns and be dragged overboard by the whale
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Of course, killing the whale was just the beginning
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whale was towed back to the Roman, where the crew tied it to the ship
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After this, a platform was hung over the whale
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whale and to cut it into smaller sections
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were then used to lift or drag the pieces of blubber into the try-pots for rendering into whale oil
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the unsuspecting whale, the officer on board would call to the
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the lance that would deal the deathblow to the wounded whale
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He would now be an officer in charge of a whale boat
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during a whale chase
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He would be the officer to kill the whale
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buying whale products from the whalers
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of oil and whale products
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After the return of the Liverpool to New Bedford in 1851, with a full load of whale oil and related whale products, Jonathan
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officer in charge of one of the whale boats lowered during the
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The journey to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea was successful, and the Liverpool returned to New Bedford in 1853 with a full load of whale oil and related material
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who were always in hot pursuit of the whale men when they
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They had actually captured only one whale during
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It was a frustrating time for Jessie, but not unusual to have long periods of time without whale sightings for a typical whaling voyage
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hundred barrels of whale oil and twenty-two hundred pounds of
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the demand for whale oil was greater than the supply, and this
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After leaving Honolulu, the Milo captured her first whale of the voyage on April 27 during a rainy and overcast day
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putt-putt golf there are dark caves, stampeding elephants and once there was a report of a giant whale that ate golf balls
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the result was a ship’s hold filled with barrels of whale oil and whalebone
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The Milo needed to offload its whale harvest, and Honolulu was the place to do it
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time in processing the whale harvest on board the ship
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In addition, whale oil and bones needed to be offloaded and sold on the open
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several weeks in Honolulu, offloading the whale harvest for
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In fact, this was about the only material transferred over to the Shenandoah, as there was practically no whale oil in the hold
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It is reliably reported that he had a whale of a good time
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when they were not engaged in working on a captured whale
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through all of the steps necessary to process a whale, from
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bringing the whale alongside the ship, to cutting and boiling the blubber
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continued to process and boil the whale blubber from the recent
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On June 22, the Shenandoah, while still sailing close to Cape Thaddeus, sighted two ships and steamed after the nearest, which was working on a captured whale
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On this morning of June 23, all hands were at work on the whale, and each man knew what his
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Jessie and the children were inside the captain’s quarters where they spent most of their time when a whale was being worked
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This whale would be a welcome
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with one or more of the many whaleships in the vicinity, but that would happen after the current whale was completely processed
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Milo, announced what had happened and ordered the work on the dead whale to be stopped and the decks to be washed and
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filled with barrels of whale oil and bone
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Captain Hawes began the voyage in search of whale oil to meet the world’s demand
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He knew that whale oil was a very profitable business
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produce than whale oil
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have more markets and more uses than whale oil ever did
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Carved or engraved images on whale ivory
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“Do you really, you slimy piece of whale liver? You may be a better swordsman, but I am a better swords-woman and you have injured my love
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I sat up in the hold of a boat dimly lit by a whale oil lamp
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Just then, a black and white whale leaped from the water
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I asked, “Do you think that whale would have gotten out of
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In the first edition of The Origin of Species, where he wrote he had observed bears floating for hours in the water with their mouths open eating insects floating on the surface, said: "I see no obstacle to a race of bears becoming, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with an increasingly large mouth, to produce a monstrous beast like a whale "
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He had discovered, in a skeleton of Basilosaurus, the first knee of a whale located in one part of the spine, much lower than he had imagined
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Klah’s story was about a whale hunt and also greatly impressed our hosts
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had portended that whale beachings around the globe were connected to major
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you are as a whale in the seas, and you came out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouledst their rivers
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I did have a little trouble with “the bush that was shaped like a whale
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They are equivalent to a stingray, whale and bat
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The memorial service was held at his New London funeral home on Whale Oil Row
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if it does, I will gladly give some of that to Noah and the Whale as back-
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Of every whale
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40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth
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But the sun now shone out a little and lo! I see a mighty beast like a whale and out of its mouth fiery locusts proceeded
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someone pointed into the horizon at a breaching whale or a
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was so exhausted from trying to beach that whale, that I knew that
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"He probably thinks it's a whale," said Mary with a laugh
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This in all likelihood will precipitate as a whale of a headache
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This friend took a photo of a breeching whale in the distance
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Because of the angle and depth of the picture, this photo seemed as if the whale was breeching right over our kayaks, even though we were physically still quite far away from the whales
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Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water
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We smashed into a photo-board, Grover’s head going straight into the hole where tourists would put their faces, pretending to be Noo-Noo the Friendly Whale
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You can go whale watching
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"Has he ever whaled it any?" turning to me
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The mermaids keened like whales all around the house, singing for their friends to come
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As soon as he was up there, Marley Williams Hatch wet his lips and blew out a tune loud enough that all the kangaroos in Australia perked up their ears, and all the whales under the sea sang at once
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This individual was possibly off radar as a result of internecine strife within the C-Block or for falling foul of any one of the various killer whales that this particular little fish may have been sharing the pond with
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"Just as the whales had done," the bartender said
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The real proof of intelligence was to be able to think deep thoughts while straight like the great whales," the bartender said
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"How do the great whales solve it?" she asked them
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"And the whales solve it with song, my dear," he answered Glenelle
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Whales sang in the deeps of
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Whales sang in the deeps of the ocean
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With garden-like islands, the blue seas support dolphins and whales
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Popular species include green and hawksbil turtles, great blue heron, Scarlet Macaw, manatees, humpback whales, bottle-nosed dolphins and coral
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This smal central American country is the only one with no Atlantic coastline, nevertheless you see dolphins and whales passing through its Pacific waters
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The only country where sperm whales live al year round
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With 21 beaches, there are warm water sharks, green sea turtles, and migrating whales and dolphins
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(including the whales) and church bells ring
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The far south (near the South Pole) is home to whales, penguins and migrating seabirds
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You see, hippos in general are among the largest living mammals on the planet, coming in at sumo wrestler size along with a few others like the elephants, some rhinoceroses, and whales
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They also have two carpet whales that some people would call cats
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Her short story, Whales Call, was selected for publication in the 2011 Spring Edition of Shadowbox Magazine
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One of the first things Jon learned was that whales supplied two important resources, whale oil and baleen
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Sperm whales offer the greatest amount of whale oil, and are the largest whales to have teeth
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Sperm whales do not contain baleen
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whales, and the only way to catch them was to hunt them at sea
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spent hours learning how to carve intricate art onto the teeth of sperm whales
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whales spout turned red with blood, and the crew cried out,
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whales and the processing of the blubber
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Once whales were sighted and the captain gave
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day was on chasing whales and storing oil in the ship’s hold
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He had to plan the route that the voyage should take, and this required knowledge of where the whales would be
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On the twenty-ninth, they saw whales in the morning,
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Of course, the main targets were the whales, and the E
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in that some days were very busy catching whales and
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Jones cruised along the west coast of Africa for the entire month and saw whales only one time and
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The whales began to show up, and the E
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Up until this time, the Milo had seen a few whales but had caught none
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expecting to see whales in this location but took advantage of the opportunity and was able to put some barrels of oil in the ship’s hold by the end of the day
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Whales have been doing
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In 1864, however, it was a rough time for the whales
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It was soon to come, but in 1864, the whaleships were out there to hunt and kill the whales for their
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ship, Kate Prince, out of Whales
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Milo was located off the coast of California where the weather was warm and the whales were close by
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At the same time, on the other side of the world, the Milo was sailing off the coast of Mexico in search of whales
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During the month of January 1865, the Milo captured a rather large number of whales and spent much of the
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whales were captured and processed, and there was a lot of
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facetiously, “we have entered into a treaty with the whales, and are up here by special agreement to dispense of their mortal
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anything I can’t help, but the whales needn’t owe me much of a
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13, the Milo was actively searching for whales in the Bering Sea along with a number of other whaleships from New England,
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The Milo had caught only two whales during this time
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whales were also arriving from the southern Pacific; it was the
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whales, because when they were killed, the humpbacks sank and
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They were sure that there would be many more whales and
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of whales, as the men had the means and ability to capture them
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contact with the whaleship, Mercury, chasing whales in a stiff gale off Cape Bering
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anchors and getting the ship ready for catching whales as soon as the opportunity presented itself
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However, of course, the Milo was not in pursuit, as we know she was searching for whales and had no idea where the
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In the meantime, back in the Pacific, the Milo was doing very well with a large number of whales caught off the coast of
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profitable three years for the Milo as she caught a large number of whales during this period and filled her hold with oil and
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In the Arctic wastes, birds, whales, sea lions and enemy warships have gone about their destined affairs time and again
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Valley of the Whales [15]
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15 - Extract from a note of the National Geographic magazine in which Philip Gingerich, one of the researchers who worked in Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt, known as the valley of the whales, is interviewed
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In northern Egypt, about 200 km from Cairo, is Wadi Al-Hitan, known as the Valley of the Whales
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There, a group of researchers among which was Philip Gingerich, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Michigan, dug and studied the fossil remains of whales
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Gingerich and his team are responsible for having located over a thousand fossils of whales in the last twenty seven years
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Gingerich himself recounted: "The enormous environmental transition of whales began to interest me more and more
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By 1989, the paleontologist found the link between whales and their terrestrial ancestors
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Just imagining the whales who swam here, and thinking about how they lived and died, and how much the world has changed since then, puts you in touch with something much bigger than you, your community or your daily life'
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He stretched his arms to embrace the dark horizon and the desert with its sandstone formations sculpted by wind and its countless silent whales
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The next moment that piece of land did not exist at all but was a huge ocean where whales and sea snakes ruled
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57 O you whales, and all that move in the waters, bless you the Lord
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Bring in 1 or 2 Whales (more about this
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• Plus I’ll show you how to hook the Whales (websites with huge customer lists of 50,000 to 500,000 or
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With over 125,000 Whales online, you could be big-time financially set for
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We also came upon whales, sea otters, and seals along the way
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If the plates shifted only slightly, it would alter the electromagnetic field that whales
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Whales had been found beached before the Sumatra, Chile, and New
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25 For in it be strange and wondrous works, variety of all kinds of beasts and whales created
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They sound like whales in the sea communicating with each other
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Later on, after the fishing of seals and whales started in their coasts, illness devastated and ruined the Maori population, so that the village Otakau Pa, considerably inhabited in earlier times, could only count about one hundred people by 1848
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Then, late in the afternoon, they began the fascinating cruise trip towards the city of Juneau where, it is said, “black bears wander frequently without worry, the salmon clashes against the Eskimo canoes and humpback whales tip over twenty-foot small boats”
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During that delightful crossing, travelers may very well observe some fur bearing seals, some bald eagles and, with luck, some whales
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21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good
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south in a field, and birds and whales appear to use earth’s magnetic
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In retrospect, we may have been a bit too adventurous as we have heard of whales tipping over boats
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In fact it is illegal to get to within a certain distance of the whales
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One day a friend of ours was watching the whales from his motor boat, floating with the engine off
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Our kayaks were about half way between his boat and a pod of whales that was putting on quite a performance
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Because of the angle and depth of the picture, this photo seemed as if the whale was breeching right over our kayaks, even though we were physically still quite far away from the whales
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Beached whales, porpoises caught in fishing nets, mermaids with hangnails—they'd call me to come underwater and help
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The fish were all different species; there were whales, sting rays, sharks and marlins
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wildlife, whales, dolphins; the list goes on and on
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The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts with the difficult whales of selfishness which lead eventually to darkness and death unless such God-forsaking Jonahs shall turn their hearts, even when in the very depths of despair, to seek after God and his goodness
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I knew we were high by the diminutive size of the waves and the occasional leaping whales that I spotted
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whales that they may become
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seabirds, whales, sharks and dolphins
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thousands of dolphins and small whales in an enclosed cove
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whales are then laconically beaten to death
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have been fascinated by whales for thousands of years
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their encounters with beached whales
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There are toothed whales (orcas, sperm whales) and non-
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The humpback whales are
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Archimedes threw himself off the ship and onto a whale that was headed for in the direction of a whaling vessel the pirates had passed earlier
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When the whale was caught, Archimedes hopped off the dying whale and joined the crew of whaling humans
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whaling vessel intercepted at sea
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Yankee merchant or whaling ship venturing on the high seas was
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in whaling and ships were the most important men in New
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Even as a young boy, he could tell that the wealthy men were whaling men, and they had the power and influence over
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age, wanted to become a whaling man and a sea captain
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many of the young men wanted to find careers in the whaling
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discussions with his parents and friends in the whaling business, Jon shipped on the bark Roman as a greenhand under the
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Jon learned a great deal more about sailing and whaling during these two years at sea
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view whaling from every angle and every level of the ship
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oil-soaked ship afire! This was a task for Jon and his greenhand friends during his first whaling voyage
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described above was the essence of the whaling business
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During the course of the remaining months on this first whaling
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This voyage took the Roman from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean for South Sea whaling
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terms of profit and also in terms of Jon’s learning the whaling
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This first whaling voyage was the stepping stone for Jon to become a master mariner and illustrious skipper
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ready to move up the whaling ladder and return to sea again
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The boatsteerer was a petty officer and was a key member of the whaling crew
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While at sea in the winter months, whaling was done in the
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Then, during the summer months, whaling was
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major trade center for the whaling business, in terms of both
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where whaling was best at that time of year, and then up into the Bering Sea during the summer months
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However, at this time these thoughts had to be put on hold, as Jonathan had an exciting offer for his next whaling voyage
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doing business with a whaling broker in Honolulu
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a whaling captain was considered an aristocrat, and he was tall
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He was now assured that he had the toughness to take charge and be successful in future whaling voyages, and he
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He was also aware of the fact that many of the whaling captains took their wives with them on the whaling
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Hawes enjoyed this part of the whaling business
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called her diary, Lady’s Journal of a Whaling Voyage in the
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during a whaling voyage
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It was, after all, a whaling venture and a business
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whaling from the perspective of a woman who was actually there
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Jessie began to learn that whaling was not always being lonely at sea,
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By this time, Jessie was sure that whaling at sea was not a boring and lonely way of life
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This was somewhat typical of whaling
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did not have time to dwell on the negatives of whaling
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It was a frustrating time for Jessie, but not unusual to have long periods of time without whale sightings for a typical whaling voyage
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Morgan, which was also heading for the North Pacific for next summer’s whaling
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the North Pacific and the Bering Sea where serious whaling
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the Bering Sea for summer whaling in the Arctic Ocean
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It was the best time of the year for profitable whaling there
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because there were literally hundreds of whaling ships in the
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A fast vessel with auxiliary steam power, leaving the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on the first of January, would reach Sydney in Australia in forty days, adding twenty days for incidental interruptions, and leaving the coast of Australia on the first of March, passing through the whaling ground between New Zealand and New Holland, and the Caroline Group, touching at Ponape, and allowing 30 days for incidental interruptions, would reach the Ladrone Islands by the first of June
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She would then, visiting the Bonin Islands, Sea of Japan, Okhotsk Sea and North Pacific, be in position about the 15 of September, north of the Island of Oahu, distance from sixty to one hundred miles, to intercept the North Pacific Whaling fleet, bound to Oahu with the products of the summer cruise
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the Sea King earlier in the fall of 1864 with the intention of using her as his weapon to destroy the American whaling fleet in the
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Islands, having completed a successful whaling season
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would now be in search of winter whaling in the southern Pacific during the cold winter season in the Arctic
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On this very same day on the other side of the world, the Milo weighed anchor in the Port of Honolulu for winter whaling off
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approached, the Milo would head back to the Bering Sea for the best whaling of all, in terms of productivity and profitability
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He knew his objective was the Yankee whaling fleet that
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He continued to carry on with the men of the Shenandoah as though this was a social event, or gam, and talked about whaling and life at sea
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Whaling was not as good, but it was
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terrible year for the whaling fleet
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Also lost in that freeze was the ship Roman, which was the first ship that Captain Hawes sailed on to begin his whaling career
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Life was never dull on a whaling
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they were going to have a very successful whaling venture this
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from whaling after this summer and start building a new career
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whaling friends from New Bedford and other ports in New
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many whaling vessels anchored there
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American whaling fleet operations
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That was the situation for the Milo as well as all other whaling ships in the northern Pacific at that time
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CSS Shenandoah as it homed in toward the American whaling fleet in the northern Pacific Ocean, the Okhotsk Sea, and the
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summer of whaling in the Bering Sea
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together and requested that Secretary Welles protect whaling
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Hawes and all other whaling or merchant masters, knew with
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they did not know that the Civil War was actually over, and this was a significant problem for the whaling fleet in the Northern
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that the CSS Shenandoah was even in the Pacific Ocean, and certainly, no whaling captain ever expected the Confederates to
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Consequently, no whaling captain ever
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favorite location for many whaling masters
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In fact, by this time, all whaling masters assumed that the war was over after the news had spread to this part of the world of General Lee’s
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This was almost becoming a daily routine between these two whaling
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This was truly the best whaling spot in the world at this time of year
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chronometers as well as being the location for the best whaling
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Hawes spent several years as an apprentice in sail making followed by a systematic progression in the whaling
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Frank Vera was a whaling master who had immigrated to the United States from the Azores
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was also a well-known and respected whaling master of the New
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the whaling activity was taking place and he was anxious to
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On board with Captain Hawes, Jessie, the children, and the Milo crew were the paroled prisoners from six burned vessels, Abigail, William Thompson, Sophia Thornton, Euphrates, Jireh Swift, and Susan Abigail, along with four whaling masters and one merchant master
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Waddell rationalized that he had already performed his mission to destroy the Yankee whaling
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Raid on the Whaling Fleet
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Full Particulars of the Condition of the Whaling Fleet, etc
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Intense excitement was created in this port yesterday morning by the arrival of the whaleship Milo , from the whaling ground in the North Pacific, having on board, in addition to her crew, about one hundred and ninety officers and men of the Pacific whaling fleet, from vessels which had been captured and burned by the rebel pirate Shenandoah
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other whaling areas in the Pacific
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whaling after the experience with the Shenandoah, and left the Milo in San Francisco for different ways to make a living
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northwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that promised good whaling
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whaling voyage by spending the next several months off the
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coast of Mexico where whaling was best during the winter
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anchor in Honolulu and sell off the harvest, adding to the profits of the whaling voyage
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beginning to wish for the whaling voyage to end so she and the
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in the spring of 1869, regardless of any additional profits from more whaling
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However, profits from whaling were enticing
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perfect location for whaling during that period in 1868
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successful whaling, the Milo set course on a return run to Honolulu to sell off the proceeds stored in the ship’s hold
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before the Milo would arrive back in New Bedford, but Jonathan planned that this would his final voyage as a whaling master and Jessie’s final sea voyage as well
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literally hundreds of whaling ships out on the oceans of the
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The Milo was lucky to be ransomed and to be able to continue in whaling after the summer of 1865
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However, it did have a great impact on the whaling cities in New England, particularly New Bedford
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The year 1865 was also the beginning of the end of the whaling
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As with the whaling industry, the world will
