VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



THE EARED SEALS AND WALRUSES. 



The Eared-Seals (328)— The Fur Seals and Hair Seals (328)— The Sea-Lion (329)— The Sea- 



Bear (329)— Value of its Fur (330)— The Fur Seals (331)— The California Hair Seal (331)— The 



California or Northern Sea Lion (332) — Manner of Capturing it Alive (333) — The Walrus (334). 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE TRUE SEALS. 

 The Common Seals (337) — Their Wide Distribution (337) — Their Habits (338) — Their Love 

 of Music (338) — Robbin's Reef (339) — The Caspian Seal (340) — The Hoe-Rat (340) — The Harp- 

 Seal (340)— Richard's Seal (341)— The Bearded Seal (341)— The Gray Seal (342)— The White- 

 bellied Seal (342) — The Sea Leopard (342) — The Crab-eating Seal (342) — The False Sea Leopard 

 (343) — The Large-eyed Seal (343) — The Sea Elephant (344) — The Crested Seal (345) — The West 

 Indian Seal (346). 



GET ACE A. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE RIGHT WHALES. 

 The Cetacea (349)— The Family Balaenidae (350) — The Greenland Whale (350) — Its Mode of 

 Respiration (351) — Its Blubber {351) — Whalebone (352) — The Young Whale (353) — Enemies of 

 the Whale (354) — The Whale Fishery (355) — American Whalers (355) — Mode of Hunting the 

 Whale (356) — The Harpoon and Bomb-lance (357) — Australian Right Whale (358) — Scrag Whale 

 (358)— Biscay Whale (358) — Genus Eubal^na(358) — Genera Hunterius, Caperia, Macleayus (359). 



CHAPTER II. 



THE FINNER WHALES AND RORQUALS. 



The Humpb.ack or Bunched Whales (360) — The Rorquals or Big Finners (362) — Difficulty 



of Taking them (363) — The Northern Finner (364) — The Sulphur-bottom (364) — Adventure of the 



Ship " Plymouth " 1364)— The Great Indian Rorqual (365) — Ancient Accounts of it (365) — The 



Pike Whale (366)— The Southern Rorqual (367)— The California Gray Whale (367). 



CHAPTER III. 



THE SPERM WHALES AND BLACK FISH. 



The Family Catodontidx (368)— The Sperm Whales (368)— The Spermaceti (369)— Their 



Speed (370) — Their Furj' when Provoked {370)— The Story of the Ship " Essex (371)— Other 



Ships Destroyed by this Whale (371)— Ambergris (372) — Speculations as to its Origin (372)— 



Pood of the Sperm Whale (372)— Black Fish (373)— The Genus Cogia (374). 



CHAPTER IV. 

 THE BEAKED WHALES AND THE NARWHALS. 

 The Family Hyperoodontida: (375)— The Beaked Whales (375)— The Bottle-nosed Whale 

 (375)— The Xiphius (376)— The Family Monodontids (377)— The Narwhal (377)— The Extra- 



