Chapter 14
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entirely based on the lives of the men after their rescue. I found it totally surprising
that all of the men went back on whale boats. Pollard even captained another
ship. That journey didn’t fare well to all either. On a particularly rough
night his ship was destroyed on a protruding rock. Luckily they had traveled with
another ship and were brought aboard by morning. After that Pollard was deemed
and utterly unlucky man and he simply joined the neighborhood watch for Nantucket.
Owen Chase had five children and continued on whaling expeditions until he was forty-one,
at which point he retired for good to care for his children. Thomas Nickerson
went on a few more whaling trips then settled in Nantucket became an inn
keeper. I thought it was out of the total blue that they went back to do the
very thing that had put them in such a life threatening situation.
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