INDEX 



413 



Gray whales, xiv, 120, 209, 257, 259, 



351, 355. 373. 378, 385 

 Gray's Whale, 386 

 Greece, xx, 47, 51 



Greeks, xiv, 33, 47, 48, 52, $5, 278, 362 

 Greenland, xxi, 16, 21, 85, 86, 89, 94, 



138, 141, 162, 166, 169, 181, 192, 



212, 225, 227, 230, 234, 236, 271, 



276, 277, 303, 306 

 Greenland right whale, 141, 161, 254, 



256 

 "Greenland salad," 172 

 Greenland Sea, 162 

 Greenlander, Jon, 89 

 Greenlanders, 89, 93, 138, 181 

 Grettir the Strong, 88 

 Grounds, whaling, 115 

 Grouse, 11 

 Guadalcanal, 238 

 Guard, Praetorian, 64 

 Guayaquil, 206 

 Guianas, 363, 365 

 Guinea, Portuguese, 261 

 Guinea coast, 216 

 Gulf Stream, 30, 49, 115, 162, 212, 214, 



284 

 Gunbjorn, 88 

 Guns, 13, 129, 190, 192, 259, 286, 295, 



296, 298, 311, 339 



Haf-skip, 85 



"Hairy Ainus," 108 



Hal^oland, 77, 81 



Halibut, 17, 19 



Hamburg, 169, 302 



Hanseatic League, 169 



Hardrada, Harald, 85 



Hares, 11 



Harpoons (harpooning), xii, xiv, 12, 



13, 109, 116, 129, 133, 170, 182, 



185, 294, 298, 342, 351 

 Hatteras, Cape, 190, 262 

 Hawaiian Islands, 114, 115, 254, 259 

 Hebrides, 7, 13, 15, 16, 273, 283, 303 

 Heimskringla, 88 

 Hemisyntrachelidae, 352 

 Henry VIII, King, 19 

 Heriulfson, Biarni, 82 

 Herrings, 11, 20, 119, 335 

 Heyerdahl, Thor, 114 



Hieroglyphs, 18, 36 



Hindus, 261 



Hinton, Martin, 328 



Hippopotamus ivory, 39 



Hispaniola Island, 214 



History of Am?nals, 60 



History of the World, The Compendi- 

 ous, 77 



Hittites, 38 



Hokkaido Island, 103, 108, no 



Holland, 130, 137, 166 



Hollanders, 118, 138, 164, 182, 227, 

 247, 253, 258, 273, 274, 297, 301, 

 340 



Holothurians, 312 



Holstein, 225, 228 



Home Bay, 277 



Honolulu, 254, 260 



Honshu Island, 103, no 



Hoornvisch, 92 



Horace, 60 



Hormuz, Strait of, 33 



Horn, Cape, 217, 230, 232, 234, 237, 

 247, 256, 303 



Horn implements, 14 



Hors-hwael, 78 



Howes, 83, 88 



Hudson River, 182 



Hudson Strait, 90 



Hudson's Bay, 16, 86, 141, 162 



Huguenots, 182 



Hull, 226, 228, 274, 277, 279 



Humpback whales, xiv, 56, 304, 311, 

 313, 329, 336, 378, 385 



Hunan Province (China), 364 



Hundholm, 81 



Hussey, Captain Christopher, xi, 129, 

 193, 203, 210, 212, 224, 298 



Hutu, 111 



Huxley, Thomas Henry, 238 



Hval kra, 342 



Hval-ros, 78 



Hyperoodon planifrons, 282 



Hyperoodon rostratus, 281, 282, 386 



Iberians, 131, 295 



Ice, 224, 228, 274, 280, 304, 309, 325, 

 326 

 Shelf, 326 

 Icebergs, 274, 277 



