Seal Hunting - History

History

Seals have been used for their pelts, their fat (seal oil was often used as lamp fuel, lubricants and cooking oil, and for processing such materials as leather and jute, as a constituent of soap, and as the liquid base for red ochre paint), and for their flesh.

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