Arrived in Cape Town, he was employed by the firm " Cloete, Reitz and Anderson " as a harpooner for the whaling industry in False Bay.
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The mid-16th century chalupa used by the Basque whalers was 8 meters long, and would have been manned by a steersman, five oarsmen, and a harpooner.
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Conservationists are determined to eradicate whaling in this decade, so the whaling boats fall into disrepair, the harpooners lose their skills and the public loses its taste for whale meat.
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As for the future, Naslund intends to heed the words of Ishmael in " Ahab's Wife " when Una praises the harpooner's gift as a storyteller.
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Their second attempt occurred a month later, in which a harpooner speared an animal, and men on shore hauled it in while men on a longboat repeatedly stabbed it with bayonets.
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Lindholm employed a diversity of men at his stations, including fellow Finns, Kanaka named Jack served as harpooner and boatheader for a few seasons ( 1870-1871 ) as well.
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Harpooners ) " n . 2 " and " Fiocinatori n . 3 ", both created in 1956 and exhibited in Venice in a pavilion designed by Carlo Scarpa.
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He had a well-established reputation as a harpooner and sailor, he had an intimate knowledge of Pkeh customs, and in the long campaign against Te Rauparaha he had enhanced his mana.
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Rigged with a mast for the spotter and a long platform off the bow, the " pulpit " for the harpooner, Stevens'boat is typical of those in the harpoon fleet.
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The harpooner will stand in a dugout canoe, steady himself against 10-foot Pacific swells, heft the barbed lance, take aim and plunge it into the back of a 38-foot leviathan.
