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INDEX 



Bottlenose porpoise, description and habitat, 



10. 

 Bottlenose whale, description, 10. 

 Bottlenose whaling, not frequent, 64. 

 Bounty, paid to English whalers, 37; paid to 



English Southern whalers, 59. 

 Bourne, Jonathan, head of a New Bedford 



whaUng firm, 157. 

 Bowhead whale, yields the longest and finest 



bone, 3; habitat, 3; location and purpose of 



the whalebone, 3. 

 Bowhead whaling, in Bering Sea, 259; in the 



Arctic, 279. 

 Brennan, Thomas, joins the Fenian fugitives, 



291. 

 Breslin, John J., agent of the Fenian conspira- 

 tors, 289; helps six Fenian conspirators 



escape from Fremantle, 290; letter to the 



Governor of Western Australia, 294. 

 Brower, Charles D., in charge of whaling 



station at Cape Smyth, 272. 

 Brown, Frank E., description of shop, 311. 

 Buchanan, President James, appoints 



Leonard Gibbs Sanford United States 



Consul at Tumbez, 221. 



Caa'ing whale, description and habitat, 11; 



method of capture, 63. 

 Cachalot, yields a superior oil, 4; the King 



of the Whole Wide Ocean, 12. 

 Calhoun, takes the John Adams, Mermaid, 



and Parana, 226. 

 California gray whale, description and 



habitat, 9. 

 Call, Surgeon S. J., a member of the Bear 



rehef party, 274. 

 Cape Horn Pigeon, arrested by a Russian 



officer, 295; released, 299. 

 Captain of a whaler an absolute monarch, 250. 

 Carnegie, Andrew, sails on the Wiscasset, 153. 

 Catalpa, bought by Captain George S. 



Anthony, 287; sails ostensibly on a whaling 



voyage, 287; anchors in Bunbury harbour, 



289; boarded by Fenian fugitives, 292; 



lands Fenian fugitives in New York, 293. 

 Catherine, captured by the Essex, 117. 

 Charles, meets the Essex, 115. 

 Charleston, captured by American vessels, 118. 

 Charleston, S. C, harbour channel blocked by 



sunken whalers, 228. 

 Cheever, Rev. Henry T., account of wreck 



of the Commodore, 174. 

 Cherub and Phoebe, take the Essex, 119. 

 Chile, Alonso de Ovalle's description of whales 



off the coast of, 337. 

 Christopher Milchel, Ann Johnson ships as a 



sailor on the, 199. 

 Civil War, effect on whaling, 226. 

 Clergyman's account of a whaling incident, 



159. 

 Cleveland, Captain Benjamin, returns to 



whahng, 313. 

 Clough, Benjamin, saves the Sharon, 185. 

 Coffin, Dinah, petitions court for permission 



to remarry, 76. 

 Collins, J., aUas John J. Breslin. 289. 

 Comet, crushed by the ice-pack, 262. 

 Commerce, attacked by the Spaniards, 94. 

 Commodore, Rev. Henry T. Cheever's account 



of the wreck of the, 174. 

 Commodore Preble, withdrawn from the 



Lynn whaling fleet, 155. 

 Community whaling, practised at the Faroes, 



64; in the Arctic and in New Zealand, 64. 

 Compai^ia Argentina de Pesca, first company 



in sub-Antarctic whaling, 326. 

 Comstock, Samuel B., murders the officers of 



the Globe, 131; assumes command of the 



Globe, 134; formulates mutineers' code, 



136; murdered, 138. 

 Contract between German commander and 



crew, 1671, 31. 

 Courser, captured by the Alabama, 232. 

 Cuffee, Paul, captain and owner of a whaler, 



156. 

 Cutting a sperm whale, description of, 168. 

 Cutting a right whale, description of, 171. 



Dana, Richard Henry, account of sailor's 

 opinion of whalers, 254. 



Dauphin, rescues two of Essex crew, 305. 



De Mandelslo, Jean-Albert, account of whales 

 in Japanese waters, 145. 



De Ovalle, Alonso, account of whales in 

 Chilean waters, 145, 377. 



De Urdaire Jean, whaling voyage to New- 

 foundland in 16th Century, 17. 



Death, caused by winter in St. Maurice, 50; 

 in Greenland, 50. 



Deblois, John S., captain of the Ann Alexan- 

 der, 306. 



Dee, account of winter locked in the ice, 51; 

 finds the Thomas and the Advice, 52; joined 

 by the Grenville Bay and the Norfolk, 52; 

 secures tow from the Washington, 56. 



Desertions, from whalers, 127. 



Devilfish, or Japanese gray whale, descrip- 

 tion, 9. 



Devoy, John, plan to rescue Fenian convicts 

 at Fremantle, 286. 



Digby, Rear Admiral Robert, issues permits 

 to Nantucket whalemen, 86. 



Draco, account of passengers on board the, 

 202. 



Drift whales, ownership settled by law in 

 American colonies, 69; litigations about, 73. 



Dolphin, rescues Lay and Hussey, 143. 



Dolphins, description of the group, 10. 



Dowden, Captain James, promises help to 

 imperiled Arctic fleet, 263. 



Dudley, Paul, description of American whal- 

 ing vessel of 18th Century, 72. 



Dundee fleet, locked in the ice, 51; converted 

 for steam whaling, 61. 



Dutch whaling, competes with Muscovy 

 Company, 22; preeminence in 1698, 24; 

 protected, 25; success in the 18th Century, 

 36; declines in early 19th Century, 40. 



Eben Dodge, captured by the Sumter, 228. 



Eclipse, captures twenty bottlenose whales, 

 64. 



Edward, captured by the Shenandoah, 235. 



Edward Carey, captured and burned by the 

 Shenandoah, 204, 236. 



Elisha Dunbar, captured by the Alabama, 

 232. 



Elizabeth, Puritanical captain of, 198. 



English whaler, gear and crew of, 39. 



English whalers, constant dissensions among, 

 25; capture Dutch vessels, 39. 



English whaling, early, 21; poor seamanship 

 and inexperience, 26; begins to decline, 26, 

 60; revival of, 36; bounty given to Southern 

 whalers, 59; decay of Southern Fishery, 59. 



Equipment, of a 16th- or 17th-century whaler, 

 30; of an American whaler of the 18th 

 Century, 99; of a 16th-century whaler, as 

 described by Hakluyt, 340. 



Erie, romance of the, 150. 



Esquimaux, Lieutenant E. P. Bertholf's 

 description of night in a hut of the, 275; 

 crude whaling "irons" of, 322. 



Essex, spectacular cruise of, 113; falls in with 

 the Charles, 115; attacks the Nereyda, 116; 

 captures the Montezuma, Georgiana, Policy, 

 Atlantic, Greenwich, Catherine, Rose, and 



