138 Index. 
Cc. 
Cabot, Sebastian, voyages of, 11 
California, whaling from San Francisco, q. v.; gold in, discovery of, 
effect of, 74; whaling in, shore, 60, 61 
Candles, sperm, manufacture of, 110; New England, 111; Philadel- 
phia, 111 
Cape Breton, whaling at, English, 12 
Cape Cod, ports on, 30; whaling from, after 1800, 29 
Cape Horn, first whaler rounding, 58; voyages round, length of, 60 
Chili, coast of, whaling off, 58, 60 
Civil War, effect of, on whaling, 77; southern privateers in, 78 
Cogan, Cunningham and, gun, 83 
Commerce, at Boston, 99; decline of, 110; decline, effect of, 111; 
decline of whaling, effect of, on, 109; early, 99; England and 
West Indies, with, 101; French, commercial treaty with, 104; 
from Long Island, 99; golden era, during the, 107; imports and 
exports, relation between, 108, 109; Nantucket, 101; Revolu- 
tionary War, effect of, on, 103; War of 1812, effect of, on, 105; 
whale products in, 98, 106 
Connecticut, first whaling in, 21 
Cotton mills, effect of, on whaling, 75 
Crews, Americans in, 90; foreigners in, 90; Indians in, 89; size of, 
89; wages of, 90 
Crisis, financial, 1857, effect of, 67 
Cunningham and Cogan, whaling gun, use of, in Arctic, 83 
Darting Gun, description of, 84 
Dartmouth, Mass., first whaling from, 32, 36, 38, 42 
Dartmouth, N. S., founding of, 42 
Davis Straits, 17, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36 
Decline, of commerce, 110; of prices, 71; of whaling industry, 67- 
70; causes of, 72-79 
Delaware, whaling from, 53 
Disaster of 1871, 79 
Dutch, bounties by, 18; whaling by, 16, 17; decline of whaling, by, 
18; at Spitzbergen, 14, 17; in Davis Straits, 17; in seventeenth 
and eighteenth centuries, 17 
Duties, imports, English, exempt from, 15; on colonial, 15, 34; in 
New York, 23 
