Whalefisher

He promised his parents that he would watch over him as if he were his own son, and would make a clever whalefisher and sealhunter of him.

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In 1880 he took his first trip on a steamship, the Agn, as a machinist, the boat having been bought from the celebrated whalefisher, Sven Fyen, as an express boat in Varanger fjord.

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The Rev. Mr. Scoresby, in his "Arctic Regions," states that it is the constant companion of the whalefisher, joining his ship immediately on passing the Shetland Islands, and accompanying him to the highest accessible latitudes, keeping an eager watch for anything thrown overboard.

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For a Greenlander of Disko-bay, who had been with a whalefisher to Amsterdam, and came back this year, spread a rumour, that next spring many ships would come and kill all the Europeans, and all the Greenlanders too that they met with among them.

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