Xll 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 (33S) — 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 (3441 — The Crested Seal (345) — The West 

 Indian Seal {346). ■>^ 



GET ACE A. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE RIGHT WHALES. 

 The Cetacea (349)— The Family Bala-nida: (350) — The Greenland Wh.-ile (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^ena^358) — Genera Hunterius, Caperia, Macleayus (359). 



CHAPTER II. 



THE FINNER WHALES AND RORQUALS. 



The Humpback 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" (364) — 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 FI'^H. 



The Family Catodontida: (36S) — The Sperm Whales (368)— The Spermaceti (369)— Their 

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

 Ships Destroyed by this ^Vhale (371)— .\mbergris (372) — Speculations as to its Origin (372) — 

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



CHAPTER IV. 

 THE BEAKED WHALES AND THE NARWHALS. 

 The Family Hyperoodontid^ (375)— The Beaked Whales {375)— The Bottle-nosed Whale 

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



