My grandpa was a whaler.
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Whaler
/ˈweɪlə/
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For a whaler's wife to have been “ 'round the Cape” half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
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Whalers have always overexploited their stocks, driving them to commercial extinction.[…]American whalers, operating at first from the coast and later in sea-going boats, took about 200 000 right whales in addition to humpbacks and grays.
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The whalers brought a new way of life. They brought a chance for travel. Many Chamorros traveled to London and the United States. Over eight hundred Chamorro whalers settled in Honolulu.
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