Stripping sea-elephant blubber and rolling it in barrels to try-works southwest beach of Herd’s Island
Drawing by H.W. Elliott after captain H.C. Chester
The American sealing schooner Harmony captain Hodges departed Nantucket, USA in 1821 bound for the South Shetlands returning back home on 10 June 1822 with 1.000 fur seal skins and 250 barrels sea elephant oil.
Source
The Fisheries and
Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V. Vol II. George Brown Goode,
Washington, 1887.
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