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INDEX 



Shetland Islands, 14, 15, 138, 273, 283, 



3031 335 

 Shihuh, 33 

 Shikoku Island, 103 

 Ships, 30, 33, 47, 54, 83, III, 260, 277, 

 295, 299, 322 



American, 251 



barques, 171, 217, 250, 277 



Basque, 136 



brigs, 250, 261 



British, 277 



chasers, 260, 299, 302, 303, 311, 324, 



325, 341, 372 

 cHppers, 171, 277 

 Cretan, 47 

 Dutch, 142, 170 



floating factories, 301, 307, 321, 323, 



326, 340, 341, 342 

 full-rigged, xi, 171, 250 

 icebreakers, 276, 279, 280 

 Indian, 54 



ironclad, xiv 

 Japanese, 112, 119 

 Nantucket, 212 

 Norse, 83 

 Phoenician, 30 

 schooners, 212, 250, 284 

 Scots, 277 



sloops, 212 



steam, 260, 261, 278-280, 299, 302 



tugs, 278 

 Shore stations, 165, 167 

 Shrimps, 331 



Sibbald's Rorqual, 311, 334 

 Siberia, 106, 251, 260 

 Siberian Sea, 164, 260 

 Siberians, 104 

 Sicily, 47 

 Sidon, 38 

 Sind, 32 

 Singhalese, 261 

 Siwash, 258 

 Skara Brae, 15 

 Sletbag (skeltbakr), 134 

 Slettebakkar, 134 

 Slipways, 120 

 Sloops, 212 



Smeerenburg, 157, 166, 301 

 Snails, 11 

 Society of Friends, 216 



Solomon Islands, 114 



Somali coast, 35 



Somme River, 10 



Sopite Zaburu, Captain Frangois, xi, 



129, 141, 298, 322 

 Sorvaer, 301 

 Sotalia, 362, 364 

 Sotalia fluviatalis, 363 

 Sotalia gadamu, 393 

 Sotalia guianensis, 363, 393 

 Sotalia pallida, 363 

 Sotalia sinensis, 364 

 Sotalia teuszii, 363 

 Sotalia tucuxi, 363 



South Africa, 10, 30, 239, 306, 307, 340 

 South Atlantic, xxii, 134, 156, 230, 232, 



239» 304. 336 

 South China Sea, 104 

 South Georgia Islands, 303, 304, 306, 



314, 324, 334 

 South Island (N.Z.), 237 

 South Orkney Islands, 325 

 South Pacific, 114, 134, 217, 229, 232, 



234, 239 

 South Pole, 232, 326, 328 

 South Sandwich Islands, 304, 325 

 South Sea Company, 224-227, 230 

 South Shetland Islands, 307, 325 

 Sowerby's Whale, 281, 386 

 Spain, XX, 47, 67, 132, 137, 226 

 Spaniards, 153, 180, 213, 258, 273, 372 

 Sparrows, 11 

 Sperm whales, xiv, xxiv, 39, 41, 203, 



204, 214, 232, 237, 248, 251, 262, 



299, 306, 309, 310, 329, 333, 351, 



353, 355, 373, 381, 3^5 

 pigmy, 204, 386 

 Spermaceti, 207, 211, 283, 353 

 Sperming (spermerc), 38, 170, 232, 234, 



238, 247, 254, 277, 333, 340, 371 

 Spirillwn recti physeteris, 211 

 Spitsbergen, 138, 142, 150, 151, 153, 



161, 164, 166, 192, 227, 276, 301, 



303, 306, 307 

 Spruce sap, 116 

 Squalodontidae, 354 

 Squalodonts, 354, 355, 365 

 Squids, 20, 193, 204, 205, 208, 211, 



263 

 St. Jean de Luz, 129 



