The best New London record is that of the "Pioneer," made in an eighteen-months' cruise in 1864-5.

She brought back 1391 barrels of oil and 22,650 pounds of bone, all valued at $150,060.

The "Envoy," of New Bedford, after being condemned as unseaworthy, was fitted out in 1847 at a cost of $8000, and sent out on a final cruise.

She found oil and bone to the value of $132,450; and reaching San Francisco in the flush times, was sold for $6000.

As an offset to these records, is the legend of the Nantucket captain who appeared off the harbor's mouth after a cruise of three years.