whalefisher

He promised his parents that he would watch over him as if he were his own son, and would make a clever whalefisher and sealhunter of him.

For a Greenlander of Disko-bay, who had been with a whalefisher to Amsterdam, and came back this year, spread a rumour, that next spring many ships would come and kill all the Europeans, and all the Greenlanders too that they met with among them.