Sentence examples for seal-hunter from inspiring English sources

When the vessel subsequently got into distress, the west Africans deceived their rescuer, Captain Amasa Delano, an American seal-hunter and a distant relative of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pretending they were still slaves.

In 1805, an American seal hunter named Amasa Delano spotted a slave ship in distress off the coast of Chile.

Finishing fifth would seal Hunter-Reay the championship, but though his car ran strongly for much of the 500-mile race, late restarts threatened to erode his position.

I got a seal hunter to explain to me what they do with all the bits and pieces and they used everything.

And in the book's most disturbing chapter, he has visions of an aboriginal woman named Black Pearl being raped by a drunken seal hunter on a beach in 1828.

It is named for an early-nineteenth-century American seal hunter, Nathaniel B. Palmer, who at age twenty left Stonington, Connecticut, in command of a small sloop, the Hero, sailed the length of the planet, crossed the wild stretch of ocean known as the Drake Passage, and entered the foggy, iceberg-covered Antarctic waters in search of fur seals.

Seal hunters settled on the island before the official colonisation of Australia.

In the 19th and 20th centuries it was frequented by whaling ships and seal hunters.

A separate suit by seal hunters was also filed at the European Union's General Court this summer.

The loss of sea ice, for example, could hurt both polar bears and Inuit seal hunters.

Rescue helicopters plucked 18 seal hunters from ice floes in the Arctic Ocean off Barrow on Sunday.