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Australian coast. Discovered Border's Island in latitude 34 47' south, longitude east of Paris 

 136 41'. A small schooner was here built for further exploration. Fourteen thousand fur-seal 

 skins were secured at Border's Island and landed at Sydney, Australia. The island of South Anti- 

 podes was rediscovered and a sealing gang of twelve men left there. The Union sailed from 

 Sydney on a voyage to the Feejee Islands and was lost. The crew left on the Antipodes secured 

 60,000 prime fur-seal skins, which were taken to China in an English vessel chartered by Mr. Lord 

 at Sydney. The schooner sailed from Sydney on a southern cruise in search of new seal islands, and 

 was never heard from.* 



Volunteer, brig, Captain Jenkins, sailed from Hudson, N. Y., for Patagonia in 1803 ; last 

 reported with 300 barrels whale oil and some seal skins. 



Mr. F. C. Sanford, of Nantucket, writes : 



" After 1800 we had many ships in the sealing trade. The ship Rose, Capt. James Gary, made 

 three voyages between 1803 and 1813, when she was taken by the English and went to England 

 with a load of tea. This vessel was built at Nantucket. The ship Criterion, Capt. Peter Chase, 

 sailed on a sealing voyage from Boston for Mr. Samuel Parkman." 



1804. 



Commerce, ship, Captain Eldrige, sailed from Nantucket in 1804 for the Pacific Ocean. Re- 

 turned February 15, 1806, full of sea-elephant oil. Captain Eldridge died on the voyage in 1804. 



Catherine, ship, Capt. Henry Fanning, sailed from New York in 1804 or 1805 on a sealing voy- 

 age to the Australian coast and Crozet Islands. An officer and sealing crew were left at Prince 

 Edward Island, and the vessel, after visiting Cape of Good Hope for the winter, proceeded in search 

 of the Crozet Islands. Captain Fanning, after considerable search, was fortunate in rediscovering 

 these islands, and he, with his men, were the first human beings to land there. Abundance of fur- 

 seal were found, and a gang of men left there who would remain until the next season, when another 

 vessel, to be sent out under Mr. Fanning's agency, would visit these islands. The Catherine pro- 

 ceeded to China with her cargo of skins. Two other sealing vessels obtained cargoes at these 

 islands at the same time as the Catherine, one a ship from Boston, tinder Captain Percival, the 

 other from Hudson.* 



1805. 



Vancouver, ship, Captain Brown, was at Mas-a-Fuera in January, 1805, and supplied the sealers 

 there with food. The Vancouver was either on a sealing voyage or was bound on a trading voy- 

 age to the northwest coast. 



A vessel in command of Captain Delano, of Boston, was fur sealing on the island of St. Am- 

 brose, near Mas-a-Fuera in the spring of 1805. 



1806. 



Catherine, ship, Capt. H. Fanning, made a sealing voyage about the year 1806 to Crozet and 

 Prince Edward Islands, southeast of Cape of Good Hope. Secured a cargo on the latter islands, 

 where other vessels the same year obtained full cargoes. 



1807. 



Union, brig, Captain Hussey, sailed from Nantucket for Patagonia in 1807, and arrived home 

 March 12, 1808, with oil and seal skins. 



Triumph, ship, Capt. Caleb Brintnall, of New Haven, January 9, 1807, to August, 1809, on a 

 fur-sealing voyage to Falkland, Mas-a-Fnera, and other seal islands ; sailed thence to China with 

 50,000 fur-seal skins. 



Tanning's Voyages. 



