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home in April, 1822, with 200 barrels sen-elephant oil and some fur-seal skins; was tender to the 

 Stonington fleet. 



General Scott, brig, sailed from New London, Conn., for South Shetlands on 1821, and arrived 

 home in May, 1822, with 1,200 fur-seal skius and 300 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



Harmony, schooner, Captain Hodges, sailed from Nantucket in 1821, on a sealing voyage to 

 South Shetlands and returned June 10, 1822, with 1,000 fur-seal skins, and 250 barrels sea-elephant 

 oil. 



Huron, ship, Captain Davis, sailed from New Haven, Coim., in 1821 for South Shetlands, and 

 secured a cargo of 12,000 fur-seal skins, 700 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



James Munroe, sloop, Captain Palmer, sailed from Newport, K. I., in 1821 for South Shetlands, 

 and arrived home April 20, 1822, full of oil and furs. . 



Wasp, schooner, arrived at New York in 1821 with 700 barrels sea-elephant oil; arrived again 

 in May, 1822, with cargo of hair-seal skins, and sailed June 30, 1822, under Capt. Benjamin Morrell, 

 on a sealing voyage to South Pacific Ocean. The vessel was sold at Valparaiso in 1824, and her 

 cargo of 7,000 fur-seal skins was shipped home in ship Endeavor, of Salem, Mass. 



Six vessels sailed from Stoniugtou, Conn., in fall of 1821, and returned in 1822, of which no 

 record has been found; one of these vessels returned from South Shetlands with 404 fur-seal skins. 

 The entire fleet in season of 1821-'22 got only 1,600 fur-seal skins at South Shetlands. 



1822. 



Jane Maria, brig, arrived at New York April 26, 1822, with cargo of fur-seal skins from Falk- 

 land Islands. 



Hersilia, brig, of Stonington, Conn., while on a sealing voyage in 1823 was captured on coast 

 of Chili by the Spanish. Had sent home 18,000 hair-seal skins. 



Henry, schooner, Capt. Eobert Johnson, sailed from New York, June 30, 1822, in company 

 with schooner Wasp, on a sealing voyage to southern seas. Arrived home in 1824 with 13,000 fur- 

 seal skius from Auckland Islands, and sailed again the same year for the Aucklands; but after 

 securing a partial cargo the vessel was lost with all on board while on an exploring cruise. 



1823. 



Dragon, brig, arrived at New Bedford May 30, 1823, with cargo of sea-elephant oil. 

 Only Son, sloop, arrived at Stonington in 1823, with 7,500 fur-seal skins from South Atlantic 

 Ocean. 



1824. 



Dove, of Nantucket, arrived at Philadelphia August 27, 1824, with sperm oil and two live 

 sea-elephants. 



Tartar, schooner, Capt. Benjamin Morrell, sailed from New York July 19, 1824, on a sealing 

 voyage to southern oceans, and arrived home May 8, 1826, with 6,000 fur-seal skins. 



1825. 



Eliza Ann, schooner, arrived at Stouington, Conn., in 1825 with 3,000 fur-seal skins. 



1827. 



Sarah Atkins, ship, Captain Kenny, sailed from Portsmouth, B. I., iu March, 1827, for Falk- 

 land Islands, and returned in June, 1828, with 4,000 fur-seal skins, some other skins, and oil. 



Washington, schooner, 84 tons, Capt. John Dickensou, arrived at Boston November 10, 1827^ 

 from south .seas, whaling and sealing. Xo report of cargo, 

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