INDEX 



Names of vessels are In italics 



Ability, business, importance of in 



whaling, 287-88. 

 Accounts, whalemen's, 219-20; credits 



in kind, 267-71; sample, 244-45, 3i2- 



13; slop-chest, 253-55. 

 Acushnet, 177, 184-85. 

 Adams, John, 35. 

 Adeline, 63, 250, 252, 259, 269. 

 Adeline Gibbs, 276. 

 Admiralty, seamen as wards of, 78. 

 Advances, cash, 255-58; to third par- 

 ties, 264. 

 Alabama, depredations of, 289-91. 

 Alaska, 276. 

 Allyn, G. L., 275. 

 Amazon, 28. 

 Amelia, 37. 

 Ambergris, 4, 148. 

 American Seamen's Friend Society, 



106. 

 Andreiv Hicks, 191. 

 Ann Alexander, loss of, 193; poem 



concerning, 211-13. 

 Ansel Gibbs, 191. 

 Arabia, 150. 

 Arctic, whaling in, description of, 181- 



82, 281, 293-95, 297; disasters in, 



293-95, 303 ; reparations voted by 



Congress, 294. 

 Auction, of effects of dead seamen, 



139. 

 Anvashonks, 185, 198. 

 Azores, 300. 



Baker, A. C, 185. 



Baker, Benjamin, 2820. 



Baffin Bay, 28, 152. 



Balances, cash, statistics of, 318, 321. 



Baltimore, 9. 



Barney, Charles J., 334n. 



Barnstable, 29. 



Barter, on whaling voyages, 247. 



Basque whaling, 19-20. 



Bayonne, 19. 



"Beach-comber," 53. 



Beaver, 37. 



Behring Straits, 43, 112, 152, 291, 293, 

 306. 



Benjamin Rush, 275. 



Benjamin Tucker, 218. 



Bermudas, 25. 



Biarritz, 19. 



"Bible-leaves, " 172. 



Bills, outfitters', amount of, 98-99. 



Biscay, Bay of, 19. 



"Blanket-pieces," 169. 



Blubber, i73n. 



Boarding-houses, whalemen's, 96-97. 



Boat-crew, 115, 157. 



Boatsteerer, 49; duties of, 119. 



Boat-whaling, 25, 42-43. 



Boston, 9, 29, 239, 305; marine in- 

 surance at, 280. 



Bounty, for sighting whales, 154-55, 

 219; method of payment, 265-66; on 

 whaling in England, 21 ; on whal- 

 ing products, by Massachusetts, 35. 



Bourne, Jonathan, 274, 279. 



Bowhead, whale, 147; whaling, 43- 

 44. 



Brazil, 28, 33, 38, 150. 



Brighton, 232, 264; sample accounts 

 of, 244-45. 



Brown, J. T., 281. 



Browne, J. Ross, 116. 



Brutality, in handling crews, 14, 121- 

 24. 



Bunker, Uriah, 28. 



Burke, Edmund, 33. 



Cabin, description of, 125. 



Canton, 194, 225-26, 265; interest 



charged on, 256-57. 

 Cape Cod, 9, 25, 29, 49. 

 Cape Horn, 7, 150, 152, 300, 307. 

 Cape of Good Hope, 150-52, 230. 

 Cape Verde Islands, 28, 300. 

 Capital, importance of, 286-87; 'ack 



of in later whaling, 300. 

 "Captain Bunker," 215-16. 



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