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NDEX 



Argyrocetus patagonicusy 352, 366 



Aristotle, $6, 61, 64 



Armor, bone, 112, 113 



Arnold, Saint, Bishop of Soisson, 165 



Arnux's Beaked Whale, 281 



Arrian, 54, ss^ 62 



Artemidorus, 60 



Artiodactyla, 357 



Arvad, 38, 39 



Asia, xxiii, 52, 54, 60, 77, 102, 108, 112- 



116, 122, 254, 279 

 Asia Minor, 47 

 Assur, 39 



Assur-Nagir-Pal, King, xii, 39 

 Assyria, xii 



Assyrians, 38-40, 52, 203, 298 

 Atlantic Ocean, 7, 21, 67, 90, 115, 132, 



213, 214, 253 

 Atlantis, 131 

 AtlantosauruSj 334 

 Auk, great, 11 

 Aurignacian culture, 132 

 Aurochs, II 

 Australia, xxiii, 10, 223, 230, 232, 234, 



235, 236, 238, 306, 307, 322, 329, 



354 

 Australian aborigines, 261 

 Azilians, 132 

 Azores, 134, 141, 212 

 Aztecs, 180, 259 



Bab el Mandeb, Strait of, 35 



Baboons, 292, 294 



Babylonians, 52 



Bacteria, 211 



Bada, 343 



Baffin Bay, 90, 162, 228, 277, 279 



Baffin Island, 90, 170, 277 



Bahamas, 212 



Baird's Beaked Whale, 281, 387 



Balaena (ship), 342 



Balaena antipodarum, 239 



Balaena australis, 239 



Balaena biscayensis, 134, 239, 383 



Balaena japonica, 239 



Balaena mysticetus, 141, 161, 383 



Balaena sieboldii, 164 



Balaenae, 62, 67, 133 



Balaenoptera acutorostrata, 79, 384 



Balaenoptera bore alts, 121, 384 



Balaenoptera brydei, 336, 384 

 Balaenoptera musculus, 338, 384 

 Balaenoptera physalus, 338, 384 

 Balaenopteridae, 383 

 Baleen, 16, 36, 80, 115, 120, 121, 129, 

 134, 161, 168, 182, 186, 188, 228, 

 250, 253, 256, 257, 283, 302, 312, 



335, 343 

 Baleen whales, 204, 257, 383 

 Ballentine, Charles, 326 

 Ballistae, 74-76, 81, 82, 295 

 Baltic Sea, 8, 11, 21, 80, 90, 106, 191 

 Baluchistan, 29, 33, 56 

 Banks Island, 260 

 Barents, Willem, 138, 142 

 Barnacles, 313 

 Barron, Captain, 279 

 Barques, 171, 217, 250, 277 

 Basque language, 132 

 Basques, xx, xxi, 82, 118, 129, 131, 152, 



153, 162, 182, 234, 236, 276, 298, 



322, 371, 385 

 Batima coast, 32 

 Battas, 115 

 Bay of Islands, 236 

 Bay whahng, 235, 237, 240 

 Bayonne, 133 

 Beaked whales, 204, 281, 351, 353, 355, 



357, 373, 386 

 Bear Island, 134, 151, 152 

 Bears, 11, 17, 89 



polar, 89 

 Beaufort Sea, 164, 254, 260 

 Beaver, 11 



tail of, 377 

 Behemoth, 41 

 Belle Isle, 213 



Beluga, xiv, 192, 204, 280, 351, 387 

 Benet, Captain Steven, 150 

 Bengal, 60 



Berardius arnuxii, 281 

 Berardius bairdii, 281, 387 

 Bergen, 79 



Bering Sea, 164, 254, 256, 260 

 Bering Strait, 80, 114, 164, 254 

 Bermuda, 134, 214 

 Biarmians, 78 

 Bible, 37, 40 



Coptic, 211 

 Birds, II, 107, 155, 172 



