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A Whale-Oiled Machine

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The Story of the Whaling Industry

Dorothy's father and the crew ate only bread, molasses and whale meat. The sailors would carve some of the bones into these art pieces called scream-shah. Dorothy says that in the galley there was this stash of plump, juicy, delicious oranges. But Antonio and the crew? They didn't get the oranges.

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