Stripping sea-elephant blubber and rolling it in barrels to try-works Soutwest beach, Herd’s Island. Drawing by H.W. Elliott after captan H.C. Chester.
The American sealing
schooner Huntress captain Chris. Burdick departed Nantucket, USA in 1820 bound
for the South Shetlands returning back home in 1821.
Source
The Fisheries and
Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V. Vol II. George Brown Goode,
Washington, 1887.
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