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INDEX 



Captain, duties of, 119. 



Capture, of whales, description, 156- 

 67. 



Cargo, of oil, average, 327-29. 



Cargoes, of James Maury, 330; whal- 

 ing, fluctuations in, 274-77; statis- 

 tics of, 274, 277. 



Carcass, danger of sinking, 165. 



Caribbean Sea, 28. 



Carroll Ground, 150. 



"Case," 167, 169. 



Cash, advances of, 255-58. 



Cassander, 194. 



Cataivba, 191. 



Chantey songs, 215-16. 



Charleston, 289, 291. 



Charles W. Morgan, 308. 



Chase, Washington, 203n. 



Chatham, 29. 



Cheever, H. T., 2140. 



Chile, 149-50. 



Chock-pin, 49n. 



Civil War, effects on whaling, 289- 

 92. 



Clifford Wayne, 275. 



Cocus Island, 190. 



Colonies, whaling in, 25-28. 



Communication, slowness of, 87-88. 



Compensations, of whaling life, 201- 

 02. 



Connecticut, 29. 



Construction, of whaling vessels, cost 

 of in 1841, 324. 



Consular Letters, 79-80. 



Consuls, and seamen, 78-83; and 

 whalemen, in; duties of, 78-80; 

 inadequate protection of foremast 

 hands by, 80, 82-84; remuneration 

 of, 80-82. 



Corinthian, 276. 



Cornelius Hoivland, 191. 



Corwin, J. R., 188. 



Cost, joint, illustration of, 296; of 

 constructing a whaler in 1841, 324; 

 of outfitting a whaler in 1844, 326; 

 rising, of whaling, 299. 



Courts, and seamen, 76-78. 



"Craft," whaling, 157. 



Credits, in kind, 267-71 ; in whale- 

 men's accounts, 220, 265-71. 



Crew-lists, sample, 55-57. 



Crews, whaling, composition of, 48- 

 49> 51-59; cosmopolitan nature of, 

 7, 242-43, 300-01 ; deterioration of, 

 59, 61, 300-01 ; inexperience of, 57- 

 58; youthfulness of, 57-58. 



Crozet, 150. 



Cutting-in, allocation of tasks during, 



171-72; description of, 167-72. 

 Cuttyhunk, 308. 



Dangers, of whaling, see Hazards. 



Daniel Webster, 294. 



Dartmouth, see New Bedford. 



Dauphin, 193. 



Davis, W. M., 108, 113. 



Davis Straits, 21, 28, 151. 



Debits, in whalemen's accounts, 219; 

 explanation of, 246-65; miscellan- 

 eous, 261. 



Decay, of American whaling, 302-08; 

 causes of, 290; statistics of, 1846- 

 1886, 302-03. 



Deaths, on whaling voyages, 316-17. 



Deil, Reverend, 113. 



Delago Bay, 230. 



Demand, for whaling products, 295- 

 96. 



Desertion, 62-69, no; abuses connec- 

 ted with, 309n. ; charges connected 

 with, 259-60; statistics of, 63-64, 

 316-17. 



Deterioration, of whaling crews, 59, 

 61. 



Diana, 196. 



Digby, Admiral, 35. 



Discharge, 68, no, 316-17; and pay- 

 ment of earnings, 224-26; of car- 

 go, charges for, 263. 



Diseases, of whalemen, 200-01. 



Distintegration, of American whaling 

 fleet, 302-08. 



Dog-watches, 129. 



Drift-whales, 25. 



Ducie's Island, 192. 



"Duff," 131. 



Dutch whaling, 20, 21. 



Duty, on whaling products, 31. 



Earnings, whalemen's, amazingly low, 

 312-13; as function of variables, 

 235; compared with wages of mer- 

 chant seamen and of unskilled 

 shore labor, 239-40; confiscation of, 

 66; English, 237-38; monthly, 236- 

 40; statistics of, 236-38, 318-22. 



Eastham, 25, 29. 



Easthampton, 29. 



Edgartown, 29, 305, 334n. 



Edward Lee, 190. 



Edward III, 19. 



Embargo, 38. 



