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“I mean, he epitomizes what it takes to be a successful oarsman or oarswoman.”

The oil on canvas shows an oarsman in a top hat rowing his skiff on languid waters.

The oarsmen felt ropes of kelp fouling their strokes with each pull.

None of the oarsmen, for example, was permitted on the ledge to witness the exchange of fire.

Their fate wasn’t discovered until 1808, when the captain of an American merchant ship anchored just off Pitcairn Island heard a local oarsman speaking “crisp and proper English.”