THE VOYAGE OF THE HURON AND THE HUNTRESS 



again dropped the shallop's anchor in Yankee Harbor. He found Captain 

 Robert Johnson's (New York) fleet, "all their to anchor." The load of skins 

 was then transferred to the Huron and Huntress, his share being 335. 



This cruise proved several things to Captain Burdick and Captain Davis. 

 At their three camps they had collected 1,062 skins, while the Stonington camps 

 during the same time had put aboard the Hero a total of 4,000 skins.^^ This 

 was in addition to the 10,000 already salted away before the Huron and 

 Huntress had arrived in Yankee Harbor. Further than this, the log of the 

 Hero shows that Captain Palmer was collecting skins on the north shore of 

 Livingston Island as well, picking up from camps between Shirreff's Cape and 

 Williams Point in "BIythe" Bay — named from Blyth, home port of the dis- 

 covery brig Williams — and had brought in on December 13 a total of 5,916 

 and 6,865 more on December 16. To this total, the record shows 8,229 skins 

 were added to the Fanning-Stonington fleet from the camps on December 19. 



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