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elephants, whose oil is more valuable than that of any other amphibious animal; and their tongues, when salted, affords no despicable resource in a scarcity of provisions[1].
From Tristan d'Acunha a short run of eleven days brought us off the Cape of Good Hope, which we were in hope of passing with a continuance of our favourable wind; in this, however, we were disappointed, as it suddenly veered to the S.E, and obliged us to run to the
- ↑ This animal, to which scalers have given the name Of sea-elephant, appears to be the same as the sea-lion of Anson, &c. The oil of the sea-elephant, by a simply preparation, is found to answer the purpose of linseed oil in painting. To twenty gallons of the oil, when boiling, add "a quarter of a pound of white copperas, two pounds of litharge or red lead, and half a pint of spirit of turpentine;" after it has boiled half an hour let it grow cold, pour the oil off from the sediment, and it is fit for use.
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