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Cabin Boy

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Illustration by Juliet Jacobson

The cabin boy was a boy or young man who worked on the ship as a servant. Many a ship's master began his whaling career as a cabin boy. The cabin boy lived in steerage and his lay (portion of the profits was between 1/215 and 1/350.

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