Add to ORKGsealer 1 nThere, when her blacksmith set to work to repair the defects of her engines, their forge fire was covered by the kettles of 140 Newfoundland "sweilers." (This is the local name for the seal killers who were taken aboard the Dundee vessels on arriving at St. John's.) [over] [reverse]p.435 - These Newfoundland sweilers were perhaps the hardiest men in the world, being able to exist without food in weather which not even the most hardened Arctic Greenlander could put up with, and this tragedy of the GREENLAND was considered a very exceptional occurrence.PRINTED ITEMG.M.Story JAN 1971 JH JAN 1971Used INot used1Not usedsiler, soiler, swiler, swoiler LANDSMANReverse side of S_1496