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
brig Indus of 262 tons captain Joy left Nantucket, USA towards Patagonia on 17
May 1816 and arrived back home on 1 July 1817 with 1.430 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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