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INDEX 



Ports, whaling, localization of, 8-10; 

 specialization of, 10. 



Portuguese, 301 ; element in whaling 

 crews, 53-54; Cape Verde, 243. 



Preston, T. R., 283n. 



Price, rising, of whalebone, 299. 



Prices, of whaling products, 30-31, 37; 

 secured by the James Maury, 330; 

 statistics of, 292-96. 



Privateers, 30, 37-38. 



Proceeds, net, how divided between 

 owners and crews, 285-86; statis- 

 tics of, 286n. 



Products, whaling, 4, 148 ; demand 

 for, 295-96; grades of, 292n. ; man- 

 ufacture of, 334-35; markets for, 36- 

 38; prices of, 37, 292; statistics of, 

 1860-1880, 296; supply of, 297-99; 

 use of, 41. 



Profits, business, "prizes and blanks" 

 theory of, 285. 



Profits, whaling, 281-85, 3^5; in Brit- 

 ish fleet, 283-84; in relation to lay, 

 222-33 I normal, 284-85. 



Progress, 294. 



Providence, 194. 



Provincetown, 10, 29, 190, 305, 308. 



Provisions, on whalers, 311. 



Psychology, of the whaleman ashore, 

 88-89. 



Pursuit, of whales, description of, 

 156-67, 203-10. 



"Putting-out system," in New Bed- 

 ford, 101-02. 



Quakers, in whaling, 10, 1250. 



Rebecca Sims, 193. 



Recreation, on shipboard, 140-42. 



Reefs, accidents resulting from, 194- 

 95. 



Registry, foreign, resort to, 292. 



Regulations, of British government, 

 30-31. 



Returns, diminishing, illustration of, 

 299. 



Revolutionary War, effect on whal- 

 ing- 34- 



Reynolds, J. N,, 7n. 



Rhode Island, 29. 



Right whale, 144-45, I47- 



Right whaling, description of, 180- 

 81; more profitable than sperm, 

 284n. 



Ringgold, Fayette M., Consular Re- 

 port by, 309-13. 



Risk, business, 273-85; business, and 

 the lay, 222-24; labor, 272; labor, 

 and methods of diminishing, 277-78 ; 

 physical, extent of, 273 ; physical, 

 and methods of guarding against, 

 278-80. 



Rodman, Samuel, Jr., 280. 



Rodney, John, 257. 



Rotch, William, 36, 304. 



Routes, whaling, 150-52. 



Royal Bounty, 188-89. 



Roys, Captain, 43. 



"Run," confinement in, 122. 



Russell, 186. 



Sag Harbor, 9, 29, 41, 43, 90-92, 287, 



305- 



Sailors' Magazine, 106. 



St. Elmo's fires, 139. 



St. Paul's, 150. \ 



Samoan Islands, 149, 151. 



Samuel Robertson, 262-63. 



Sandwich Islands, 8, 109. 



San Francisco, 305, 308; as later 

 whaling base, 306-07. 



Savannah, 289, 291. 



Scoresby, William, i82n. 



"Scrimshawing," 141. 



Scurvy, 138-39. 



Seaman, ill treatment of, 313; mer- 

 chant, wages of, 239. 



Seamen's Bethel, 46, 107. 



Seamen's Friend Society, 139. 



Seasons, whaling, 150-52. 



Sharon, tragedy of, 197. 



Shaw, George, 2^6-57. 



Sheath-knife, 75. 



Shenandoah, depredations of, 289, 

 291. 



Ship-keeper, 120. 



Shipping-agent, whaling, illustrative 

 records of, 93-96; methods used by, 

 89-96, 241, 311. 



Shipping Commissioner, 74. 



Skallenger, Jacobus, 24. 



Slaughter, of whales, numerical es- 

 timates of, 297-98. 



Slop-chest, 311; abuses connected with, 

 251-53; contents of, 247-50; on 

 whaling vessels, 246-55; prices 

 charged for articles from, 248-51 ; 

 profits of, 252 ; sample accounts 

 from the Marcella, 253-55; volume 

 of sales by, 250. 



"Slush," 231. 



Smith, Captain John, 24. ! 



