INDEX 



353 



Midas, 294. 



Middle Ground, 149, 151. 



Mills, cotton, in New England, 300. 



Minerva, 99-100, 232; charges for 

 fitting and discharging, 263 ; di- 

 versified ownership of outfit of, 278- 

 79; division of net proceeds, 286, 

 286n.; interest charged on advances, 

 256; statistics of voyages, 318-21. 



Minerva Second, 195. 



Missionaries, and whalemen, 109-10. 



"Moby-Dick," quotations from, 134- 

 35, 173-74, 175-76, 205-10; whaling 

 curiosity shop, 2t4n. 



Molucca Islands, 38. 



Monotony, of whaling life, 177. 



Montreal, 63, 67, 250, 252. 



Morgan, Charles W., I25n., 280. 



Mulford, Samuel, 29. 



Mulgrave Islands, 199. 



Mutiny, on Globe, 199; on Junior, 198- 

 99. 



Names, confusion of in crew-lists, 54- 



55- 



Nantucket, 7, 9, 10, 25-26, 41, 48; an- 

 nouncement of returning whalers in, 

 86; beginning and early develop- 

 ment of whaling, 26-28 ; early de- 

 cline of whaling in, 305-06; ef- 

 fects of War of 1812, 39; emigra- 

 tion from, 36; losses during Rev- 

 olutionary War, 35-36; negroes in 

 whaling crews, 50-51; social pres- 

 tige of wlialing in, 49; source of 

 crews, 49. 



"Nantucket sleigh-ride," 160. 



Natural history, of whales, 143-48. 



Negroes, as whalemen in Nantucket, 

 50-51. 



Neptune, mysteries of, initiation into, 

 140. 



Newfoundland, 19, 27. 



New Bedford, 7, 9, 10, 29, 41, 275, 

 287, 290, 300-01, 304-05, 308; char- 

 acterization of, 46-47; monthly 

 wages of whaling hands in, 239; 

 origin of whaling in, 29; Outfitters' 

 Association in, 102; "putting-out 

 system" in, 101-02; semaphore tele- 

 graph system in, 103 ; shipping- 

 masters in, 90; size of fleet, 9. 



New Holland, 150. 



New London, 9, 41, 90, 136, 287, 305. 



New York, 9, 29. 



New Zealand, 38, 149-50; whaling 



grounds near, 151. 

 Night-watches, on whaling grounds, 



153. 

 Northmen, as whalemen, 18-19. 

 Northwest Coast, 43, 151. 

 Northwest Passage, i49n. 

 Norway, 19. 

 Norwich, 308. 

 Nova Scotia, 36. 

 Nute, Benj. H., 198. 



Octher, early Norse whaleman, 19. 



Ofiicers, whaling, characterization of, 

 59-60; prosecution of, 75-78. 



Off-Shore Ground, 149, 151, 201, 3090. 



Okhotsk, Sea of, 7, 46, 112, 150, 152. 



On-Shore Ground, 149. 



Osborn, John, 213-14. 



Outfit, of whaling vessel, cost of in 

 1844, 325; list of articles required 

 for, 331-32' 



Outfitter, 70; activities of, 97-102; ar- 

 ticles furnished by, 99-100; bills of, 

 amount, 98-102; bills of, how col- 

 lected, 262; exploitation of fore- 

 mast hands by, 100-102; methods 

 used by, 311. 



Outfitters' Association of New Bed- 

 ford, 102. 



Ownership, diversified, of whaling 

 vessels, 278-79. 



Pacific, early whaling in, 37. 



Paddack, Peter, 191. 



Paddock, Ichabod, 26. 



Paita, 201, 309. i 



Parke, W. C, 259. 



Patagonia, 150, 185. 



Payta (or Paita), 187, 198. 



Pease, Peter, 333. 



Pelew Islands, 198. 



Peru, 149. 



Petroleum, competition with whaling 



products, 290, 295. 

 Physician, whaling captain as, 137. 

 Plummer, Cyrus, 198. 

 "Plura-pud'ner," 305, 308. 

 Plymouth, 25. 

 Point Barrow, 295. 

 Point Belcher, 289. 

 Politics, and whalemen, 74. 

 Pollard, George, 192. 

 Porter, Admiral, expedition under, 39. 

 Portland, 188. 



