seal-hunter

I met the seal-hunter, Pete Holt, and agreed to be his boat-puller and to sign on any schooner he signed on.

Chapter 15 2010

She was a seal-hunter before this gold expedition got her.

Chapter 19 2010

“Master of the steamship Macedonia, seal-hunter,” was the answer.

Chapter 10 2010

The Sophie Sutherland was a seal-hunter, registered out of San

Chris Farrington, Able Seaman 2010

He was strong and beautiful to her eyes, a great hunter, and, in that he had wandered far and much, very poor; he had been to all the unknown wastes and places; he had journeyed to Sitka and to the United States; he had crossed the continent to Hudson Bay and back again, and as seal-hunter on a ship he had sailed to Siberia and for Japan.

The Wit of Porportuk 2010

She, however, has no eye for Porportuk, an old man, nor for any man but Akoon, a great seal-hunter who has wandered to such places at Sitka, Hudson's Bay, Siberia, and Japan.

“Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.” 2008

The reader shall see the engraving of the lonely seal-hunter which so much pleased poor Kalli.

Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir Thomas Boyles Murray

The Sophie Sutherland was a seal-hunter, registered out of San

Chris Farrington, Able Seaman 1922

The long-drawn moan of a polar bear on a frosty night is another phase; this, too, is expressive, but only of those wonderful Arctic scenes where night and day are as one to this great seal-hunter.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

I met the seal-hunter, Pete Holt, and agreed to be his boat-puller and to sign on any schooner he signed on.

Chapter XV 1913