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Whaling is the
hunting of
whales for
their product like meat and blubber,
which can be
turned into a type of oil that was
important in the
Industrial Revolution...
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although it may be
eaten as muktuk.
English whalemen referred to the
process as flensing,
while American whalemen called it cutting-in or flinching. In Spitsbergen...
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Center website Retrieved January 10, 2022.
Willian John
Dakin (1938),
Whalemen Adventures, Sydney,
Angus & Robertson, p.127. "The
Victoria Advocate –...
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another at sea. The term was
first used to
describe a
school of whales, and
whalemen may have
taken its
meaning from that source.
Herman Melville titles Chapter...
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whales required longer whaling voyages, and soon New
Bedford and
Nantucket whalemen were
ranging the globe,
cruising "whaling grounds" off of ****an, off the...
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Harpoons used in the
whale fishery, 1887,
including new
design from
Provincetown whalemen...
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important Quaker family name on Nantucket, and
there were
dozens of
actual whalemen of this
period named Starbuck, as
evidenced by the name of
Starbuck Island...
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riding in a horse-drawn sleigh. The term wasn't used by
whalemen themselves, but was
probably invented by a late 19th-century journalist...
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Pequod sails near the ‘distant Crozetts’, ’a good
cruising ground for
Right Whalemen’ in
Chapter 52, ‘The Albatross’. See also
chapter 58, ’Brit’.
Biggles Cuts...
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white men.
According to
Frances Diane Robotti,
there were
three types of
whalemen:
those who
hoped to own
their own
whaleship someday,
those who were s****ing...
