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Manuel Silveira de Simas, age 92, after excusing himself for being in his pajamas, had a great wealth of stories to tell me from his many years as a whaler. When he left whaling to open his own shop, he regularly sold on credit to people, knowing all to well the hardships of receiving payment as a whaler. Photo by Gemina Garland-Lewis.