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Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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Die englischen Siedler von Nantucket, die 1659 zum ersten Mal auf der Insel gelandet waren, hatten sich der Gefahren des Meeres bewusst. Sie hatten gehofft, ihren Lebensunterhalt nicht als Fischer, sondern als Bauern und Hirten auf dieser mit Teichen übersäten Grasinsel zu verdienen, wo keine Wölfe plünderten.

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