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A Whale-Oiled Machine
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What Is a Harpoon?
Dorothy Hopes is the daughter of Antonio Lorenzo Lopes, who worked as an orzmann on a whaling ship. She says her father didn't know how to swim and risked his life chasing whales in boats that had no life jackets. Dorothy: "I just get shivers because even though my father lived on an island, he did not knowledge how to swim"
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