INDEX 



-4. M. Nicholson, sperm whaling voyage of, 

 312. 



Abigail, mate's account of pests on the, 197; 

 captured by the Shenandoah, 236. 



Active, taken by the French, 93. 



Acushnet, carries Herman Melville and 

 Richard Tobias Greene in her crew, 155; 

 Herman Melville's account of the, 155. 



Advice, found by the Dee, 52. 



Alabama, takes the Ocmulgee and Ocean 

 Rover, 230; takes the Starlight, Alert, 

 Weathergauge, Altatnaha, Benjamin Tucker, 

 Courser, Virginia, and Elisha Dunbar, 232; 

 takes the Levi Star buck and Kingfisher, 233; 

 takes the Lafayette, Kate Cory, and Nye, 

 234; captured by the Kearsage, 234. 



Alert, captured by the Alabama, 232. 



Alford, Benjamin, gets permission to export 

 whale oil directly to London, 80. 



Allen, Dr. Glover M., opinion of whaling 

 of American Indians, 70. 



Allen, Captain Joseph, goes whaling in 

 Japanese waters, 145. 



Altamaha, captured by the Alabama, 232. 



Ambergris, origin and value, 5; Sir Richard 

 Hawkins's account of origin of, 342. 



American Indians, imaginative account of 

 their method of whaling, 19; method of 

 whaling, 70; employed by Colonial whale- 

 men, 71; find a sperm whale at Nantucket, 

 75. 



American Museum of Natural History, finest 

 whaling collection in America, 323. 



American whaling, early, 15; first recorded 

 capture of a sperm whale, 57; success of 

 Southern Fishery, 59; earliest type of, 69; 

 situation in 1776, 82; threatened by pirates, 

 83; effect of the Revolution on, 85; advance 

 following the Revolution, 87; effect of the 

 French Revolution of 1789 on, 93; one 

 reason for the success of, 100; effect of the 

 War of 1812 on, 113; its debt to previous 

 whalemen, 145; typical cruises, 146; ex- 

 pansion of grounds gradual, 147; effect of 

 gold rush on, 158; largest fleet, 191; effect 

 of Civil "War on, 226; the greatest single 

 disaster, 258; effect of the Arctic disaster of 

 1871 on, 269; two men directly attacked by 

 whales, 302; towns still able to man a 

 whaling fleet, 312; the New England in- 

 dustry almost dead, 316; reasons for the 

 decline of, 316; many records of, 320. 



American Revolution, effect on whaling, 85. 



American sailors of the 18th Century, charac- 

 ter and aims of, 106. 



American whaleboat of the 18th Century, 

 description of, 107. 



American whaling vessel of the 18th Century, 

 description of, 72. 



Ames, Nathaniel, account of whaling cap- 

 tains, 251. 



Ann Alexander, struck by a whale, 307; crew 

 rescued by the Nantucket, 307; two irons of, 

 found in a whale by the Rebecca Sims, 307. 



Antarctic, wrecked, 326. 



Anthony, Captain George S., promises to 



rescue the Fenian convicts at Fremantle, 

 287; buys the Catalpa, 287; refuses to admit 

 British soldiers to the Catalpa, 293. 



Arctic, secures record cargo, 61. 



Arctic Ocean, community whaling in the, 64. 



Arctic disaster of 1871, effect on American 

 whaling, 269. 



Arctic fleet of 1876, twelve vessels lost, 270. 



Arctic fleet of 1897, importance, 270. 



Arctic whaling, pleasant and unpleasant 

 aspects of, 279. 



Arethusa, Captain WiUiam H. Macy's ac- 

 count of attack on a sperm whale, 162. 



Arnolda, Leroy S. Lewis's description of 

 passengers on the, 202. 



Atlantic, captured by the Essex, 117. 



Athlete, soon to go whaling, 316. 



Atlantic Ocean whaling, in the 20th Century, 

 147. 



Aurora, record cargo, 39. 



Awashonks, Silas Jones's account of voyage 

 of the, 176; crushed by the ice-pack, 263. 



Baker, Captain Archilaus, agrees to take 

 John Boyle O'Reilly on board the Vigilant, 

 284. 



Baker, Captain George O., desired as heir to a 

 throne, 204. 



Baker, Lark, born on board the Ohio, 199. 



Barclay, recaptured by the Essex, 117; com- 

 manded by David Glasgow Farragut, 118. 



Barracouta, informs the Shenandoah that the 

 Civil War is ended, 238. 



Bartholomew Gosnold, a thief's punishment 

 on board the, 201. 



Basques, early method of whaling, 16; whaling 

 voyages to Newfoundland in 16th Century, 

 17; teach technique of attack to Dutch and 

 English, 25. 



Beaked whales, description of group, 10. 



Bear, rescues the captain and mate of the 

 Narvarck, 270; sets out to rescue Arctic 

 fleet, 273; reaches Cape Smyth, 278; 

 recues shipwrecked whalemen, 278. 



Bedford, first ship flying Stars and Stripes to 

 appear in a British port, 87. 



Belvedere, caught in the ice-pack, 271. 



Benjamin Tucker, captured by the Alabama, 

 232. 



Berlin decrees, effect on American whaling, 95. 



Bertholf, Lieutenant E. P., account of relief 

 voyage of the Bear, 27 A; description of a 

 night spent in an Esquimau hut, 275. 



Blackfish, description and habitat, 11; me- 

 thod of capture, 63 ; taken by the Lancer, 

 210. 



Blubber, purpose of, 2; early description of 

 preparation of, 34; description of prepara- 

 tion of, 171 ; new method of preparation of, 

 330. 



Blue, or sulphur-bottom, whale, the largest 

 animal known, 7; practically defenseless 

 against harpoon gun, 325. 



Bonzy, William, a deserter, 252. 



Borderer, rescues three boats' crews of the 

 Kathleen, 310. 



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