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and comes out in your breath that way. If so, 7 - 7 isn't the answer. MORE STUPID, BIG GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF GOOD, AMERICAN BARBERS!
What? Oh, sorry. Must ... control keyboard of death.

Have you ever heard the song "Bustles and Bonnets"? It's about the whale fishing industry and it turn from giving the creatures a fair chance to the use of powder charged harpoons. History has it that whalebone was used to give shape to garments worn by the finer ladies. As well, I remember hearing that whale vomit (ambergris) was used in making perfume. I gotta think that getting a haircut from a barber who'd just finished a salad full of scallions would be more pleasant than being anywhere near the old queens.

Someone found some recently and worth a lot of money. Yep, the old queens probably whiffed a bit.
Dafydd.

scramble to scoop out as much as they can from a whale before they're ordered back to the Pequod. Would have made the whole three years worth it for a seaman.

of all sorts of wildlife went to the Crown.
Whalebone, (which I think was from baleen whales), oil, ambergris. By volume it was the oil they worked hardest for and got the most dollars for.
Read the chapter "On the Whiteness of the Whale".

I think that's one thing they were after until the Clampett's struck it rich. Everything I've heard in old folk song about the perils of the sea and the daring of the seamen tells me it's not a career path for the average Joe. Those folk songs have morphed considerably from once considering these folks to be heroic to now considering them to be terrorists of the oceans if not the entire planet. It's strange how this happens and one reason I reject the idea of judging folks of long ago using today's thinking.

Pennsylvania strike was made. Doubt many whalers knew about it.

"come without all Force and Armour, well and peaceably, to the Honour of Us, and the Peace of Us and our Realm."
How quaint. Couldn't assemble the US Congress in that case, with or without Force and Armour.