INDEX 



355 



Hector, 117; recaptures the Barclay, 117; 

 surrenders to the Phoebe and Cherub, 119. 



Essex, twice struck by a sperm whale, 303; 

 abandoned by her crew, 303; crew lands on 

 Ducie's Island, 304; five of crew rescued, 

 305; mate's account of the crew's suffer- 

 ings, 305. 



European whaling, early history unwritten, 

 16. 



Evelyn, John, description of capture of a fin 

 whale, 7. 



Faraway, boarded by a Russian man-of-war, 

 294. 



Faroes, community whaling at the, 64. 



Farragut, David Glasgow, in command of the 

 Barclay, 118. 



Favorite, captured by the Shenandoah, 237. 



Fearless, caught in the ice-pack, 271. 



Fenian Brotherhood, plot discovered, 284. 



Finback, description and habitat, 8; sighted 

 from the Minnesota, 244; practically de- 

 fenseless against harpoon gun, 325. 



Finner whale, feared by the English, 38. 



Fin whale, habitat and usefulness, 6; com- 

 position of the group, 7; John Evelyn's 

 description of capture of, 7. 



Flensing, early description of, 34. 



Flying Arrow, sails out of Gloucester, 154. 



Food supply, on board a 16th- or 17th-century 

 whaler, 30; John Laing's description of, on 

 the Resolution, 40; Kohler's description of, 

 on the Greenland, 41; of an American 

 whaler of the 18th Century, 99; on board 

 a 19th-century whaler, description of, 200; 

 a captain's answer to a complaint about, 

 205; on board a 16th-century whaler, as 

 described by Hakluyt, 339. 



Foyn, Svend, invents the harpoon gun, 63; 

 sails for Antarctic, 326. 



Franklin, unlucky with its crew, 149; wrecked 

 off the coast of Brazil, 149. 



French and Indian War, Nantucket whalers 

 captured during, 76. 



French privateers, attack American whalers, 

 93. 



French Revolution of 1789, effect on Ameri- 

 can whaling, 93. 



French whalers, difficulties of, 25. 



Gas, coal, introduction of lessens demand for 



whale oil, 43. 

 Gangers of fish oil, appointed in New York, 



120. 

 Gazelle, John Boyle O'Reilly sails on the, 286. 

 Georgette, does not recover Fenian fugitives, 



292. 

 Georgiana, captured by the Essex, 117. 

 German whaler, food supply, 41. 

 Gifford, Captain David R., agrees to take 



John Boyle O'Reilly on board the Gazelle, 



286. 

 Globe, Hussey and Lay's account of voyage of, 



127; six men desert from, 128; mutiny on 



board, 130; trial on board, 135; reaches the 



Mulgraves, 137; returns to Nantucket, 144. 

 Gloucester, engages in whaling, 154. 

 Golconda, mutiny on board the, 199. 

 Gold, effect of discovery in California on 



whaling, 158. 

 Grace, whaling expedition in 1594. 21. 

 Gray whale, description and habitat, 9. 

 Greene, Richard Tobias, shares adventures 



with Herman Melville, 155. 

 Greenland, eight of crew of Salutation winter 



in, 44; condemned criminals sent to winter 



in, to test possibility of surviving, 45; 



seven whalemen winter in, 50. 



Greenland, Kohler's description of food 

 supply on, 41. 



Greenland voyage, duration of, 38. 



Greenwich, captured by the Essex, 117. 



Grenville Bay, joins the Dee, 52. 



Grind val, description and habitat, 11; me- 

 thod of capture, 63. 



Guano, description of, 331. 



Hakluyt, Richard, information regarding a 



16th-century whaler, 339. 

 Hallucinations, of the Essex crew, 304. 

 Harding, Nath, scalded by boiling oil, 73. 

 Harpoon equipment of English and American 



whalers, 40. 

 Harpoon gun, revolutionizes whaling, 63; 



results of invention of, 325. 

 Harriet, narrow escape of crews of three 



boats of the, 186. 

 Harvest, captured by the Shenandoah, 236. 

 Hector, captured by the Essex, 117. 

 Hector, captured by the Shenandoah, 236. 

 Hibernia, captain attacks mutinous crew, 198 

 "Hippopotames" of the early whaling, 18, 20 

 History of whaling, divisions, 61. 

 Hougoumont, carries Fenian convicts to Fre 



mantle, 284. 

 Hudson Bay whaling, in the 20th Century 



147. 

 Hull whalers, prosperity of, 39; difficulties of 



39. 

 Humpback, description, 8; practically de 



fenseless against harpoon gun, 325. 

 Huntress, captain acts as surgeon, 198. 

 Hussey, Christopher, the first Nantucketer to 



kill a sperm whale, 75. 

 Hussey and Lay, account of voyage of the 



Globe, 127; saved by the natives, 140; re- 

 turn, 143. 

 Indian, rescues three of Essex crew, 305. 

 Industry, sells oil cargo in England, 87. 

 Inspectors of fish oil, appointed in New York, 



120. 

 Intrepid and Pioneer, first steam whalers in 



the Arctic, 61. 



Janet, tragic voyage of one of the boats of the, 



187. 

 Japan, crew picked up by the Arctic fleet, 



260. 

 Japanese gray whale, or devilfish, description, 



9- 



Japanese whaling, still thriving, 324; its 

 debt to Norwegian whaling, 327. 



Jarvis, Lieutenant D. H., familiar with the 

 North, 274. 



Jeannie, caught in the ice-pack, 271 . 



Jenkins, Marshall, directly attacked by a 

 whale, 302. 



Jessie H. Freeman, caught in the ice-pack, 

 271; deserted by her crew and burned by 

 the natives, 272. 



Jewitt, John R., account of Nootka Indians' 

 method of whaling. 95. 



Joanna, taken by the French, 93. 



John Adams, captured by the Calhoun, 226. 



John (later King of England), lays first tax 

 on whaling, 16. 



Johnson, Ann, ships as a sailor, 199. 



Jonathan Bourne Whaling Museum, descrip- 

 tion of. 321. 



Jones, Silas, account of the voyage of the 

 Awashonks, 176. 



Junior, door behind which the mutineers were 

 locked up, 321 ; log book account of mutiny 

 on board the, 344 ; another account of mu- 

 tiny on board the, 347. 



