| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Melville, who in his early years was a teacher and a journalist, became a whaler himself in his 20s, signing on aboard the ship the Acushnet in 1841 out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, but then after 18 months living amidst the smelly, dangerous and sickening work aboard that vessel, he jumped ship at one of the Marquesas Islands.
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