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1802. 



Eliza, ship, Captain Bunker, sailed from Nantucket in July. 1802, bound for southern seas on 

 a sealing voyage. 



Sbip Huron, Captain Moulthorp, of New Haven, sailed September 2 on sealing voyage to coast 

 of Chili. Brought home 19,000 hair-seal skins obtained on the islands of Mecca, St. Marys, and 

 Lobos. Returned to Chili, and from the island of Mas-a-Fuera, in March, 1S05, took on board about 

 15,000 fur-seal skins taken or purchased by the men left there on the previous voyage. Proceeded 

 to Canton, where the skins were sold at 95 cents each, and a cargo of articles taken for Hamburg. 

 The Huron sailed thence to St. Petersburg and arrived home October 30, 1806. 



Lady Adams, ship, 230 tons, Captain Fitch, sailed from Nantucket August 24, 1802, on a seal- 

 ing voyage to southern seas. Was last reported bound to China with 32,000 fur-seal skins. 



Mr. F. C. Sauford, of Nantucket, says: 



" The ship Lady Adams made a sealing voyage in 1801. I have the journal of this voyage that 

 was made to Chili and thence to Canton, where she exchanged the seal skins for teas, silks, &c., 

 and came home in company with the ships Essex, of Salem, and Gossimer, of Philadelphia. The 

 Lady Adams went whaling from here after that, making splendid voyages, and burned up in Japan 

 in 1823. None saved from her. She was a very pretty ship. Obed Fitch was her commander, 

 and was in the same line of Dr. Franklin, from a famous stock. He came iu the ship Mars from 

 a voyage to Europe, when she was sunk at Baltimore as before stated. When the Essex arrived 

 at Salem our folks here purchased her in 1804. She made many whaling voyages, and was stove 

 by a whale between Marquesas and Tahita in 1820. Her men were in boats over ninety days, and 

 suftVred terribly, being obliged to eat some of their own number." 



Minerva, ship, 200 tons, Capt. Jones, sailed from Nantucket in 1802 for the Pacific Ocean, 

 whaling and sealing. Procured 23,000 seals skins and took them to China. Vessel arrived home 

 in August, 1804. 



1803. 



Alliance, ship, Captain Gardner, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia in 1803. Arrived home 

 April 14, 1804, full of sea-elephant oil. Arrived from another voyage iu April, 1805, full of sea- 

 elephant oil. 



Dispatch, ship, Captain Howard, of Hartford, was sealing on the coast of Chili in 1803. In 

 four mouths took 8,000 hair-seal skins. 



Draper, ship. Captain Howell, of New Haven, was sealing at St. Mary's Island, coast of Chili, 

 in 1803. 



Perseverance, ship, Capt. Amasa Delano, sailed from Boston September 1!5, 1803, for the coast 

 of Chili on a sealing voyage. Secured a cargo of fur-seal skins and took them to China. Arrived 

 at Boston July 26, 1807. 



Pilgrim, schooner, 02 tons, Capt. Samuel Delano, sailed from Boston September 25. 1803, as 

 tender to the Perseverance, on a sealing voyage to coast of Chili. Took a cargo of 13,000 fur-seal 

 skins to China, where the vessel and cargo were sold. 



Rachael, ship, Captain Bunker, of Salem, was at Mas-a-Feura in 1803. 



Mr. Joel Root says that several other American sealing vessels and about one hundred and 

 fifty men reported on Mas a-Fuera in this year. 



Rebecca, ship, Captain Pitts, of New York, lauded a sealing gang on the island of Mocca in 

 1803. 



Union, brig, Capt. Isaac Peudletou, sailed from New York in 1803 on a sealing voyage on the 



