ILLUSTRATIONS 



Sperm Whaling — "The Chase" .... Frontispiece 



From a lithograph by Endicott & Co., New York, 1859, after drawings 

 by A. Van Best and R. S. Giiford, corrected by Benjamin Russell. In 

 the Allan Forbes Collection, Boston. Reproduced from Dow, G. P., 

 "Whale Ships and Whaling, a Pictorial History of Whaling During 

 Three Centuries," Marine Research Society, Salem, Mass., 1925. 



The Celebration of Mass on the Back of a 



Whale Facing Page 20 



From an engraving in "Nova Typis Transacta Navigato," Manacho, 

 1621. In the Frank Wood Collection, New Bedford. Reproduced from 

 Dow. 



The Manner of Catching Whales 20 



From an engraving in Monck's "Account of a most dangerous Voyage 

 to Greenland," in "Churchill's Voyages," Vol. I, London, 1744. Re- 

 produced from Dow. 



The Spermaceti Whale of the Southern Ocean . 42 



From "The Natural History of the Whale," Edinburgh, 1837. Repro- 

 duced from Dow. 



"Cutting In" a Whale 42 



From an engraving by Rouarque, about 1850. In the Peabody Museum, 

 Salem. Reproduced from Dow. 



Outline of a Sperm Whale, Showii^g the Manner 



OF Cutting In 58 



From a drawing in Scammon, C. M., "Marine Mammals of the North- 

 western Coast of North America," New York, 1874. Reproduced by 

 permission of the publishers, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



Diagram Showing the Manner of Cutting in the 



Bowhead AND Right Whale 58 



From another drawing in Scammon. 



View of New Bedford from Fair Haven in 1853 . 92 



From an engraving by W. W^ellstood, after a drawing by J. W. Hill. 

 In the Allan Forbes Collection. Reproduced from Dow. 



Implements Belonging to a Whale Boat . . .118 



From a drawing in Scammon, C. M., "Marine Mammals of the North- 

 western Coast of North America," New York, 1874. Reproduced by 

 permission of the publishers, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



Implements Used in Cutting in a Whale . . .118 



From another drawing in Scammon. 



