INDEX 



357 



Oil, yield per whale, 6. 



Olaus Magnus, attributes great size to 



w hales, 1. 

 Orca, feared by devilfish, 9; the terror of the 



seas, 11. 

 Orca, caught in the ice-pack, 271 ; crushed by 



the ice-pack, 272. 

 O'Reilly, John Boyle, joins the Fenian 



Brotherhood, 283; court-martialed, 284; 



plans to escape, 284; escapes from penal 



colony, 285; escapes to America on the 



Gazelle, 286. 

 Oriole, abandoned by officers and crew, 260. 



Pacific Ocean, first American whalers in the, 



92. 

 Pacific whaling, no longer important, 323. 

 Padduck, Ichabod, instructs Nantucketers 



in whaling, 74. 

 "Paita Tom," death of, 216. 

 Pandora, tries to take sperm whale before the 



Arethusa, 162. 

 Paraffine substituted for spermaceti, 224. 

 Parana, captured by the Calhoun, 226. 

 Parliament, restrains colonial whalers, 57; 



impose duty on foreign oil, 88. 

 Passengers occasionally carried on whalers, 



202. 

 Peabody, Captain Thomas, commits suicide, 



257. 

 Peabody Museum, Cambridge, whaling col- 

 lection, 323. 

 Peabody Museum, Salem, exhibit of whale- 

 craft, 322. 

 Pearl, captured by the Shenandoah, 236. 

 Pease, Henry, Jr., letter requesting aid, 265. 

 Peirce, Captain Clothier, singular pessimism, 



239; attacked by the mate, 249; attacked 



by a seaman, 249; arrested at Hobart, 250. 

 Percy, George, description of whale's fight 



with a thresher and a swordfish, 343. 

 Pests, on the old whalers, 197. 

 Peters, Charles E., description of smithy, 312. 

 Petroleum, discovered in Pennsylvania, 223. 

 Phabe and Cherub, take the Essex, 119. 

 Pilot fish, description and habitat, 11 ; method 



of capture, 63. 

 Pioneer and Intrepid, first steam whalers in 



the Arctic, 61. 

 Pirates, their cruelty and vice, 83; attack 



whalers, 83. 

 Pliny, attributes great size to whales, 1, 18. 

 Poisoned harpoons, used by Norwegians, 6. 

 Policy, captured by the Essex, 117. 

 Pollard, George, captain of the Essex, 302. 

 Porpoise oil, use of, 10. 

 Porpoises, description of the group, 10. 

 Porter, David, captain of the Essex, 113. 

 Potter, Captain John, strikes a bargain, 202. 

 Potomac, mutiny of Negro crew of, 157. 

 Press gangs, whalers boarded by, 39. 

 Prince, George, captain of the Franklin, dies 



of scurvy, 149. 

 Privateers, attack Spitzbergen whalers, 24. 

 Progress, rescues many from imperiled Arctic 



fleet, 268. 

 Profit-sharing, success of whaling ships due 



to, 35. 

 Provost, Nelson, account of mutiny on board 



the Junior, 344, 348. 

 Punishment on board a whaler, description of, 



201. 

 "Purchas His Pilgrimes," John Leo's descrip- 

 tion of whales at Messa, 337; Sir Richard 

 Hawkins's description of the swordfish, 

 thresher, and ambergris, 341; George 

 Percy's description of a whale's fight with 

 a swordfish and a thresher, 343; Richard 



Whitboume's description of Newfoundland 

 whaling, 343. 



Randall, Captain Gideon, refuses to obey 

 Farragut, 118. 



Rattler, cruise and records of, 58. 



Rebecca, captured by a French privateer, 94. 



Rebecca Sims, finds two of the Ann Alexan- 

 der's irons in a whale, 307. 



"Rebel pirates," raids of, 226. 



Relampago, buried treasure of the, 214. 



Reliance, captures the Nancy, 94. 



Resolution, list of equipment and supplies, 39. 



Right whale, habitat, 3; why so called, 3; 

 habits, 4; American colonists familiar with, 

 75; description of cutting, 171; sighted from 

 the Minnesota, 245; a timid beast, 301; 

 edible, 328. 



Robinson, Captain Sylvanus D., punishes a 

 thief, 201. 



Roman, crushed by the ice-pack, 263. 



Rorqual, the fin whale, 7; neither valued nor 

 hunted, 62. 



Rosario, caught in the ice-pack, 271. 



Roscoe, bought by Jonathan Bourne and 

 others, 157; captain's daughter lost, 198. 



Rose, captured by the Essex, 117. 



Rotch, William, maintains his whalers during 

 the American Revolution, 88; champions 

 the American whalemen's cause, 89; makes 

 agreement with French Government, 90. 



Russell, Joseph, the first New Bedford whale 

 fisher. 77. 



Russian answers to American claim for 

 damages to the Cape Horn Pigeon, 299. 



St. Maurice, seven sailors die in, 50. 



Salutation, eight of crew winter in Greenland, 

 44. 



Samuel Robertson, John D. Whidden's 

 experiences on the, 193. 



Sanford, Leonard Gibbs, desires adventure, 

 208; sails on the Lancer, 209; escapes from 

 a whale, 213; seeks Relampago treasure. 

 213; deserts, 215; appointed United 

 States Consul at Tumbez, 221; returns 

 home, 221. 



Savannah, Ga., harbour channel blocked by 

 sunken whalers, 228. 



Scoresby, William, noted English whaling 

 captain, 39. 



Scotch whaling, beginning of, 38; decline of, 

 60. 



ScuUon, Thomas, captain of the Cape Horn 

 Pigeon, 295; agrees to go on board the 

 Marie, 297; claim for damages for in- 

 terrupted voyage, 298. 



Sea King renamed the Shenandoah, 235. 



Sei whale, description and habitat, 8. 



Semmes, Raphael, does much damage to 

 American whaling, 227; account of burn- 

 ing of the Eben Dodge, 228; sails on the 

 Bahama, 229; takes command of the 

 Alabama, 230; pays tribute to American 

 whaling, 230; account of landing of the 

 Ocean Rover's crew, 231; answers charges of 

 his prisoners, 233. 



Seringapatam, captured by American vessels, 

 118. 



Sharon, mutiny on board the, 185. 



Shenandoah, burns the Edward Carey, 204; 

 takes the Edward, 235; takes the Edward 

 Cary, Hector, Pearl, Harvest, Abizail, and 

 Milo, 236; captures twenty-five whalers in 

 one week, 236; takes the Favorite, 237; takes 

 the William Thompson, 238. 



Shore whaling, in the earliest days and to- 

 day. 333. 



