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 brig Henry departed from New York, USA in 1820 bound for the South and returned home in 1821 loaded with fur seal skins.
Source
The Fisheries and
Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V. Vol II. George Brown Goode,
Washington, 1887.
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