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Nathaniel West, has lately returned from China. She sailed round Cape Horn under Capt. Folger 

 from Nantucket, Stopped one degree south of Chiloe, went to island of Mas a-Fuera; hei e she took 

 seal, wintered at South Lima, and proceeded to China. She came back round Cape of Good Hope. 

 She was the first Salem vessel that circumnavigated the globe." The Salem Gazette of May 4, 

 1802, says: "Arrived 3d, ship Minerva, Captain Folger, one hundred and fifty-three days from 

 Canton, and sailed from this port October, 1799, on sealing voyage and has been successful." 



Neptune, ship, Captain Howell, sailed from New Haven in 1799 on a sealing voyage to Mas-a- 

 Fuera and China. Captain Green, who commanded the Neptune on her previous very successful 

 voyage, had left a crew of men on the island of Mas-a-Fue?a. - The skins secured by this crew, with 

 additional ones taken by Captain Howell, were sold in China, and a profitable voyage made. 



Oneida, ship, Captain Briutnall, of Nantucket, sailed from New York in 1799 for Mas-a-Fuera 

 and made a splendid voyage. The Oneida arrived home with a valuable cargo of goods from China. 



Perseverance, ship, Capt. Amasa Delano, sailed from Boston, Mass., November 10, 1799, on a 

 sealing voyage to coast of Chili ; got a cargo of fur-seal skins and exchanged them at Canton, 

 China, for teas, sugars, &c., with which the vessel arrived home November, 1802. 



Prudence, sloop, Capt. Jonathan Paddock, sailed in 1799 from Nautucket, Mass., for Pata- 

 gonia on a whaling and sealing voyage. Arrived home July 17, 1802; no report. 



Regulator, of New York, lost at South Georgia in 1799. Her cargo of 14,000 fur-seal skins, 

 together with sails, cables, and other articles saved from the wreck, were sold to an English seal- 

 ing ship. 



Captain Hubbell, of New Haven, went on a sealing voyage in 1799 and returned in 1802, sail 

 ing round the world. 



1800. 



Alexander, ship, Captain Dodge, of Boston, bound on a fur-trading voyage to northwest coast 

 of America, in the spring of 1800, left a boat crew on St. Ambrose Island to kill fur-seals, intending 

 to return for them in the fall of that year. Made a ruinous voyage.* 



Aspasia, armed Corvette, sailed from New York under Capt. Edmund Fanning May 11, 1800, 

 on a sealing and exploring voyage to the South Seas. At South Georgia 57,000 fur-seal skins 

 were secured and taken to China. Captain Fanning reported that at South Georgia sixteen other 

 American and English vessels procured 65,000 fur-seal skins from November, 1800, to February, 

 1801. On his way to China he stopped on the coast of Chili, where it was learned that there 

 were upwards of thirty American sealing vessels, whose cargoes were destined for the China 

 market. 



Miantonomah, ship, Capt. Valentine Swain, sailed from Norwich, Conn., September 5, 1800, 

 bound for the coast of Chili on a sealing voyage. The vessel was seized by the Spanish and con- 

 demned at Valparaiso, 1801 ; had taken 50,000 seal skins that spoiled after the seizure but were 

 subsequently paid for by the Spanish Government. 



Little Sarah, schooner, arrived at Norwich, Conn., in 1800, with 7,000 fur-seal skins and 6,000 

 hair-seal skins from southern oceans. 



Sally, ship, Capt. Nathaniel Storer, sailed from New Haven May 22, 1800, arrived home June 

 2, 1803. Concerning this voyage Capt. Peter Storer, aged ninety years, in a letter to the author 

 dated, Westville, Conn. March 15, 1882, says : 



" My father, Nathaniel Storer, commanded the ship Sally on a sealing voyage in 1800, and took 

 me along with him. I was then nine years and nine months old. We sailed from New Haven 



* Manuscript notes of Capt. Caleb Brintnall. 



