 The vessel returned with a cargo of 1,900 bbls of whale oil and 23,000 lbs of whalebone.Between the fall of 1861 and the spring of 1862, Lindholm traveled across Siberia by sleigh and steamer to Nikolayevsk.From there he sailed in a small sloop to the Sea of Okhotsk, where he spent the summer collecting whalebone from the shore left by stranded whales.