140 Index. 
H. 
Hakluyt’s voyages, reference to whaling in, 9 
Hamburg, whaling from, 14, 15, 17 : 
Harpoon, description of, in 1607, 81; electric, 85; gun, invention of, 
81; in California coast whaling, 61; metal, 80; poisoned, 85; 
wooden, 80 
Harpoon gun. See Gun 
Hingham, Mass., 40, 41 
Holmes Hole, Mass., 40, 48, 54 
Hudson, N. Y., 40, 45, 48, 50, 68 
Hussey, Christopher, exploit of, 26 
Hutchison, Thomas, 33 
Iceland, Biscayans, union with, 12; coast of, English whaling on, 
13; in sixteenth century, 11; whales as food in, 10; whal- 
ing, 10 
Imports, amounts of, annual, 126; at New Bedford, 130; at San 
Francisco, 130; War of 1812, effect of, on, 47 
Indians, employed in whaling, 22, 23, 26, 89 
Indian Ocean, whaling in, 59 
Japan, coast of, whaling on, 59 
K. 
Kamtchatka, whaling near, 59, 66 
Kerosene, whale oil supplanted by, 77 
Lance, bomb, 838; hand, 81 
Launches, steam, in whaling, 86 
Lay, system of wages, description of, 91; origin of, 22; in Cali- 
fornia, 61 
Long Island, N. Y., boat whaling from, 22; whaling from, at end 
of seventeenth century, 23; first, 22; in eighteenth century, 29; 
system followed, early, 22; trade from, 23 
Lynn, Mass., 30, 50, 54 
