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the 22d day of May, 1800, for the coast of Patagonia, where we built our shallop, a schooner of 

 28 tons, and went to the Falkland Islands in December, 1800, where we took a few skins. From 

 there we went to South Georgia, and at that island took the greater part of our cargo of fur-seal 

 skins. We sealed two seasons at South Georgia, 1801 and 1802. We dried the skins at Hurl 

 Gate Harbor, on the Patagonian coast, and left there early in 1803. Sailing round Cape Horn, we 

 stopped at all the seal islands on the Pacific coast but got only a few skins. We then sailed for 

 the Sandwich Islands, where we stopped two or three days and then left for Canton, China, about 

 the middle of 1802. We arrived at Canton in November with about 45,000 fur-seal skins, all cured 

 and dried, but had to sell them for 87J cents apiece, which was bad news for all hands. We left 

 Canton for home the last of January, 1803, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, with a cargo 

 of tea, silk, nankeens, &c., and arrived at New Haven on the 2d of June, 1803, after a voyage of 

 three years and ten days. Three men died on the voyage. 



" The ship Sally was built on the Connecticut River, opposite Middletown, and was 230 or .240 

 tons burthen. She was a 20-gun ship, with a crew of officers and men numbering 45. She had 

 16 waist guns, 4 pounders, and 4 swivels; also small arms, boarding pikes, &c., and was what you 

 may call a letter of marque, ready to fight her way if necessary. I was powder-monkey for the 

 two guns aft on the starboard side, and was much pleased when the drum beat to quarters. 



" Eben H. Mix was supercargo of the Sally, and Joseph Driggs was doctor; both these men 

 lived in Middletown, Conn. The Cowles, of Farrnington, Conn., were owners in the ship. I don't 

 think there is one of the crew living that was in the ship with me. When I look back and think 

 of that voyage I can hardly realize that it is so. Only think, eighty -two years ago last January 

 I was running on sea-elephants' backs on the island of South Georgia, where these animals lay in 

 rows on the beach." 



Mr. Charles Peterson writes that Capt. N. Storer went on another sealing voyage in the ship 

 Huntress, but was never heard from. 



Trial, ship, Capt. Thomas Coffin, of Nantucket, sailed in 1800 on a sealing voyage on the 

 Chilian coast. She was seized by the Spaniards and condemned at Valparaiso in 1801. 



1801. 



Brothers, ship, Captain Kidder, of Nantucket, and ship Favorite, Captain Jonathan Paddock, 

 went on a sealing voyage to Chili about the year 1801, and so on to China, and returned to Nantncket 

 with cargoes of silks and other Chinese products. 



Mars, ship, Capt. Uriah Swain, sailed from Nantucket in 1800 or 1801, and returned August 

 12, 1802. She secured a load of fur-seal skins at Mas-a-Fuera and other islands, and took them to 

 China, and made a good voyage. Mr. F. C. Sanford says: " This vessel wound up at Baltimore 

 in 1813, being one of those that was sunk in the harbor to prevent the English attack upon that 

 city. Captain Swain, of the ship Mars, consorted at Mas-a-Fuera with ship Pagassus, of New York, 

 which was subsequently lost on that island. They buried $40,000, and Swain took it up by agree- 

 ment, and accounted for it in New York on his return home." 



The schooner Grace Greenwood, of New Haven, made a successful sealing voyage to 

 Mas-a-Fuera and other Pacific islands, and returned to the United States in 1802. 



Oneida, ship, Capt. Caleb Brintnall, sailed from New York in 1801 on a sealing voyage to the 

 Pacific Ocean. 



Captain Scannon, in his History of the American Whale Fishery,, states that the sealing fleet 

 off the coast of Chili in 1801 numbered thirty sail of vessels, most of which were under the Ameri- 

 can flag. 



