On April 14, 1894, Captain Arthur Huntley, “an old and well-known seaman,” took the whaling bark James Allen and its forty-nineman crew northward from San Francisco for a two-year hunt for baleen (“whalebone”) and whale oil in the Arctic. The plan was for the Allen to hunt whales in the Arctic and winter at the whaling grounds of Herschel Island off Canada’s Mackenzie River Delta. The Allen, itself worth $10,000.00, was insured for $14,000.00. The Allen also carried 250 tons of cargo, supplies for other northern whalers, worth $30,000.
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机译：1894年4月14日，“一位古老而著名的海员”亚瑟·亨特利上尉从旧金山向北带去了捕鲸树皮詹姆斯·艾伦及其四十九名船员，进行了为期两年的对巴利安（“鲸鱼”）的搜寻，北极的鲸油。该计划是为了让艾伦（Allen）在北极和冬天在加拿大麦肯奇河三角洲（Mackenzie River Delta）附近的赫歇尔岛（Herschel Island）的捕鲸场捕鲸。艾伦本身的财产为10,000.00美元，但已为其投保14,000.00美元。艾伦还携带了250吨货物，为其他北方捕鲸者提供用品，价值30,000美元。
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