1770  (1792)  After breakfast we set off homewards, being accompanied by two of the sealers.
1842  The sealers are seen coming from all parts of the country to St. John's, with their bundle of spare clothing over their shoulders, supported by a stick, six or eight feet long, which is to serve as a bat or club to strike the seal on the nose, where he is very vulnerable. . . .
1966  At the end of a hunting day the sealers leave the ice with their skins and the female seals--thousands of them--crawl back on to the ice to the carcasses of their young.