422 



INDEX 



Verdes, Cape, 212 



Victoria, Queen, 238 



Viking ("Vikings"), 76, 273, 297 



Vinland, 141 



Virginia, 182, 213 



Vitamins, 343 



Waitangi, 237 



Walrus, 78, 81, 89, 90, 112, 152, 155 



Wanderer, 238 



Wanganumumu, 314 



War, Civil, 240, 250, 256 



War, First World, 308, 314, 323, 325 



War, Second World, 309, 341 



War of 1812, 217, 224, 247 



War of Independence, 216, 224 



Wash, 14 



Washington, D.C., 332 



Washington State, 116 



Water rats, 1 1 



Watertown, 184 



Watt, James, 278 



Weddell Quadrant, 326 



Weddell Sea, 304 



Wegener, Alfred L., 304 



Welden, Thomas, 152 



West Africa, 261, 306, 362, 363 



West Coast, 248, 253, 256, 258, 259 



West Indies, xii, 93, 140, 181, 212 



Westerlies, xxi, 138 



Western Ground, 214 



Western Islands Grounds, 214 



Whales 



ancestry of, 357 



annual quota of, 329, 330, 340 



arctic right, xiii, xiv, 13, 14, 141, 161, 

 213, 228, 247, 259, 280, 381, 383 



Arnux's Beaked, 281 



Baird's Beaked, 281, 387 



baleen, 204, 257, 383 



beaked, 204, 281, 351, 353, 355, 357, 

 373; 386 



black right, xiv, 8r, 90, 120, 129, 134, 

 138, 162, 185, 189, 228, 381, 383 

 southern, 234, 239, 247, 259 



blue, xiv, 14, 121, 155, 302, 304, 309, 

 311, 329, 334, 337, 384 



bottle-nosed, xiv, 281, 282, 299, 386 



bovi^head, 141, 161, 168, 239, 254, 

 256, 334 



Whales {continued) 

 Bryde's, 311, 314, 336, 384 

 chronology of, 373 

 conservation of, 306, 308, 309, 314, 



333 

 Cuvier's Beaked, 281, 387 

 decline of, 330 

 diving of, 206, 338 

 fin, xiv 



lesser, 79, 311 

 finback, 334 

 finner, 14, 302, 304, 309, 311, 329, 



334, 335> 337, 3^4 

 fossil (extinct), 351-356, 361, 364, 



373, 375 . 

 gestation period of, 21, 209, 329 

 gray, xiv, 120, 209, 257, 259, 351, 355, 



373, 378, 385 

 Gray's, 386 



Greenland right, 141, 161, 254, 256 

 humpback, xiv, $6^ 304, 311, 313, 329, 



336, 378, 385 

 killer, 11, 14, 18, 62, 64, 121, 154, 204, 



258, 311, 329, 360, 363, 378, 



388 

 false, 30, 328, 363, 388 

 legislation regarding, 188, 235 

 meat of, 19, 120, 134, 172, 186, 189, 



192 

 men swallowed by, 41 

 migrations of, 134, 138, 166, 189, 205, 



234, 236, 239, 258, 263, 283, 304, 



312, 326, 338 

 pigmy right, 239, 383 

 pigmy sperm, 204, 386 

 piked, xiv, 384 



little, 79, 311, 336 

 pilot, 363, 388 

 pollack, 121, 311 

 propulsion of, 21, 210, 311 

 right, 383 



Rudolphi's, 311, 384 

 sardine, 121 

 sei, xiv, 119, 121, 302, 311, 314, 336, 



384 

 Sibbald's, 311, 334 

 size of, 334, 381 

 skin of, 190, 192, 280, 335 

 sleep of, 336 

 Sowerby's, 281, 386 



