142 Index. 
P. 
Pacific Ocean, whale, first right, in, 51; whalers, first in, 58; whal- 
ing, begun in, 43; extension of, in, 49, 59; fleet in, 1820, 58; 
from New England ports, in, 60; grounds in, 52; off shore, 
48, 58; on shore, 58; in 1812, 44; Nantucket fleet in, 59; port, 
first on, 60 
Petroleum, discovery of, effect of, on whaling, 76 
Plymouth colony, whaling from, 21 
Plymouth, Mass., 41, 50 
Portland, Me., 53 
Ports, whaling fleets, belonging to, 122-125; in 1906, 112; list of, 
122-125 
Portsmouth, N. H., 50, 53 
Portuguese, in crews, 90 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 50 I 
Prices, whale products, annual of, 128; declining of, 71; increas- 
ing of, bone, 72; in 1792, 43; Revolution, effect of, on, 43 
Privateers, effect of, on whaling, American, 39; English, 44; French, 
33, 48; Southern, 78; Spanish, 33 
Products, of whaling, 94; ambergris, 76; bone, 95; in commerc2, 
98; oil, 94; refining of, 95; spermaceti, 95; uses of, q. v. 
Prospect Harbor, Me., 53 
Providence, R. I., 31, 36, 45 
Provincetown, Mass., 30 
Prussic acid, in whaling, use of, 85 
R. 
References, 132-134; criticism of, 1-7 
Refining, 95; early, 27; at San Francisco, 63 
Revolution, war of, effect of, on whaling, 38, 39, 40; Nantucket 
during, 39 
Rhode Island, whaling in, early, 31 
Ricketson, Daniel, 3, 32 
Right Whale, first, 51 
Rocket, whaling, description of, 84 
Russia Company, in Spitzbergen, whaling, 14; trade to White Sea, 
138; whaling monopoly by, 9 
S. 
Sabine, Lorenzo, 3, 19 
Sag Harbor, N. Y., 29, 40, 44, 48 
Salem, Mass., 21, 30, 50 
