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1808. 



Topaz, ship, Captain Folger, of Boston, was on a sealing voyage in 1808, and rediscovered 

 Pitcairn Island. 



1811. 



Manilla, ship, Captain McCleave, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia in 1811, and was cap- 

 tured within five days' sail of Nantucket by the English letter of marque Tiger, in 1812, full of sea- 

 elephant oil. 



1812. 



Nanina, brig, Capt. Valentine Barnard, of Hudson, sailed from New York April 4, 1812, for 

 the Falkland Islands on a whaling and sealing voyage. Arrived there, the English brig Isabella, 

 with a number of passengers, was found wrecked. The English officers offered Captain Barnard 

 all of the Isabella's cargo which could be saved if he would rescue them, to which he replied that 

 his sense of duty commanded him to relieve them without reference to compensation ; nevertheless, 

 if they so desired, he would take the remnant of the wrecked cargo as some repayment for a spoiled 

 voyage. Captain Barnard received the officers, crew, and passengers of the Isabella on board his 

 vessel, and to reward him for his exertions and loss bis vessel and crew were infamously betrayed 

 into the hands of English authorities, and he and his crew brutally treated. Tidings of the affair 

 coining to the ears of the English naval commander in those waters, he dispatched a vessel to 

 release the American captives. Captain Barnard's protest appears in the Hudson Bee in 1814.* 



1815. 



Belvidere, brig, Captain Baxton, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia May 18, 1815, and arrived 

 home March 6, 1816, with 840 barrels sea elephant oil. 



General Scott, ship, whaling and sealing from Hudson, N. Y., in 1815. Made a poor voyage 

 because of inexperience. 



Lydia, ship, 160 tons, Captain McCleave, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia May 16, 1815, 

 and arrived home March 10, 1816, with 1,012 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



Maria, schooner, Captain Worth, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia in 1815, and arrived 

 home April 2, 1816, with 700 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



Volunteer, ship, sailed from New York in 1815 on a sealing voyage. Left a boat's crew on 

 Falkland Islands to gather seal skins, and proceeded to Mas-a Fuera, where 2,000 fur-seal skins and 

 2,000 hair-seal skins were obtained ; arrived home in 1817. 



Zephyr, ship, Capt. Caleb Brinfcnall,of New Haven, made a sealing voyage to the South Seas 

 in 1815. 



1816. 



Indus, brig, 262 tons, Captain Joy, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia May 17, 1816, and 

 arrived home July 1, 1817, with 1,430 barrels sea elephant oil. 



Triumph, ship, Capt. Caleb Brintuall, of New Haven, made a sealing voyage in 1816 or 1817 

 to the Chilian coast and China. Mr. Mix, the supercargo, was poisoned at the Sandwich Islands. 



1817. 



Mary, brig, Captain Howland, sailed from New Bedford for Patagonia in May 1817, and 

 arrived home February 17, 1818, with 1,300 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



* STARBUCK : Report on the American Whale Fishery, 1876. 



