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INDEX 



Skoyu, description of, 329. 



Shuman, George, killed by a whale, 200. 



Signals, of the Morning Star, 343. 



Sir Andres Hammond, captured by American 

 vessels, 118. 



Smeerenburg, Dutch whaling base, 23. 



Smith, Captain John, account of expedition 

 in 1614, 15. 



Southern Fishery, distinguished from 

 Northern, 58. 



South Sea Company, secures exemptions from 

 Parliament, 36; secures a bounty from 

 Parliament, 37. 



South Sea Islands, whalemen at the, 174. 



Spanish privateers, attack American whalers, 

 94. 



Specksnyder. shared authority with captain, 

 35. 



Spermaceti, most valuable whale oil, 4; 

 average yield per whale, 6; processes of 

 refining made public, 81; paraffine sub- 

 stituted for, 224. 



Sperm oil, decrease in the price of, 317. 



Sperm whale, yields a superior oil, 3; size 

 and habits, 4; first recorded capture of a, 

 57; found by American Indians, 75; killed 

 by Christopher Hussey, 75; eats a captain's 

 son, 77; Captain William H. Macy's ac- 

 count of attack on, 162; description of 

 cutting, 168; sighted by the Lancer, 210; 

 death of "Paita Tom," 216; sighted from 

 the Minnesota, 242; numerous off the coast 

 of Chile, 258; a savage fighter, 301; twice 

 strikes the Essex, 303; too oily to eat, 328. 



Spitzbergen, international squabbling at, 22; 

 whaling on a large scale first organized at, 

 22; whaling base established at, 23; why so 

 called, 23. 



Spitzbergen whalers at work, description of, 

 26. 



Spooner, Captain Charles, marries a South 

 Sea Islander, 150. 



Starlight, captured by the Alabama, 232. 



Steam whalers, description of, 62; dull log 

 books. 278. 



Steam whaling, beginning of, 61. 



Suicides, on board whalers, 127. 



Sulphur-bottom, or blue, whale, the largest 

 animal known, 7. 



Sumter, escapes from the Brooklvn, 227; 

 takes the Eben Dodge, 228; left at Gibral- 

 tar, 229. 



Superior, makes first whaling voyage beyond 

 Bering Strait, 258. 



Surrey, rescues three of Essex crew, 306. 



Swordfish, Sir Richard Hawkins's descrip- 

 tion of, 341. 



Swordfish and thresher, George Percy's 

 description of whale's fight with, 343. 



Tax laid on whaling, 16. 



Tilton, Captain James A., returns to sperm 

 whaling, 312. 



Thomas, found by the Dee, 52; wrecked, 55. 



Thomas, Joseph, flogged by Captain Worth, 

 129; fate uncertain, 144. 



Thresher, Sir Richard Hawkins's description 

 of, 341. 



Thresher and swordfish, George Percy's 

 description of whale's fight with, 343. 



"Train" or whale oil, early uses of, 17; Mus- 

 covy Company's voyages for, 21. 



Traveller, Negro crew of, 157. 



Triton, attacked by South Sea natives, 200. 



Truelove, the most famous Hull whaler, 88. i^ 



Try-works of an American whaler, descrip- X 

 tion of, 172. 



Tsar, John D. Whidden deserts from, 193. 



Union, "strikes" a whale, 308. 



United States, brings Lay and Hussey to New 



York, 143. 

 United States Exploring Expedition, makes 



study of whale fisheries, 148. 

 Uses of whales, 16th Century, 17. 



Van Heemskerk, Jacob, claims to have dis- 

 covered Spitzbergen, 23. 



Varieties of whales, many genera and species, 

 2. 



Virginia, captured by the Alabama, 232. 



W. H. Webb, becomes the privateer Calhoun, 

 226. 



Waddel, James IredeU, does much damage to 

 American whaling, 227; takes command 

 of the Shenandoah, 235; surrenders Shenan- 

 doah to English authorities, 238. 



"Waigat," Dutch whalers at, 24. 



Walrus, hunted in the Arctic Ocean, 260. 



Wanderer, caught in the ice-pack, 271; es- 

 capes, 272; outfitting for a sperm-whaling 

 voyage, 312, 314; the last of the big whalers, 

 316; wrecked, 316 footnote. 



War of 1812, effect on American whaling, 113. 



Washington, tows the Dee, 56. 



Waterloo, struck by a whale, 308. 



Weathergauge, captured by the Alabama, 232. 



Whale, deliberate attacks on ships, 302; 

 attacks Marshall Jenkins, 302; damages a 

 ship, 308. 



Whales, the different varieties, 2. 



Whale oil, early uses of, 17; decrease in the 

 price of, 317; present-day uses of, 331. 



Whalebone, increase in the price of, 317; New 

 Bedford monopoly of, 318; substitutes for, 

 318. 



Whalemeat, used by Japanese, 8, 327; re- 

 commended as a food, 328. 



Whalemeat meal, formerly fed to cattle, 331. 



Whaling, early description of, 33; not yet a 

 dead industry, 323; regarded with con- 

 tempt by sailors in other services, 253. 



Whaling vessel of the 16th-or 17th-century, 

 description of, 30. 



"Whale-viewers," their duties in American 

 colonies, 73. 



Whidden, John D., deserts in order to reach 

 California, 193; captain of the Keystone, 

 194. 



Whipply, Captain Coffin, dependent on 

 charity, 94. 



Whitbourne, Richard, description of New- 

 foundland whaling, 343. 



White whale, description and habitat, 10. 



William IV, offers a Navy commission to an 

 American whaleman, 90. 



William H. Graber, last whaling voyage 

 under Captain Benjamin Cleveland, 313. 



William Thompson, captured by the Shenan- 

 doah, 238. 



Willoughby, Sir Hugh, claims to have dis- 

 covered Spitzbergen, 23. 



Wilson, Dr. Benjamin, desired as king, 203. 



Winslow, log book entry for Christmas Day, 

 197; two sailors punished, 201. 



Wiscasset, bought by the Wiscasset Whale 

 Fishing Company, 151; successful voyages 

 of, 152; sold by the Wiscasset Whale Fish- 

 ing Company, 152; brings Andrew Carnegie 

 to America, 153. 



Wiscasset Whale Fishing Company, or- 

 ganized, 151. 



Women on board whalers, 199. 



Worth, Thomas, captain of the Globe, 127; 

 murdered, 131. 



Yarmouth, drift whales at, 69. 



