708 EEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



E.— WHALE-FISHERY from 1784 to 181&— Continued. 



1(]9; another disaster, 109; lowest ebb of the fishery, 109.) Constant decline of the 

 business, 109. Its condition in 1877, 109. Causes of its decline, 109. (Notes. — 

 Atlantic whaling, 110 ; cost of outiittiug, 110. (Note. — Enormous outlays in refitting 

 in the Pacific, 112; consular care for personal interests, 113; testimony of an Eng- 

 lish journal to the value of the whale-fishery to the United States, 113 : what has 

 been done by our seamen, 113.) 



F.— DANGERS OF THE WHALE-FISHERY : 



The position of whaling captains as navigators, 114. (Xotes. — Comparative 

 rates of English and American insurance ; a Nantucket captain, 114.) Loss of 

 the ship Union, of Nantucket, 115. (Note. — Instances of vessels running upon 

 whales, 115.) Belligerent whales; loss of the Essex, of Nantucket, 116. {Note. — 

 Careful avoidance of the subject of his terrible boat-journey, by Captain Pollard, 

 119.) Loss of the Ann Alexander, of New Bedford, 119. (N'ote. — What became of 

 the whale which sunk the Ann Alexander; similar accidents to vessels, 121.) 

 Fighting whales; attacks on boats, 122. The Hector, of New Bedford, 122. 

 (Notes. — Position of the sperm whale in attacking; the Emerald, of New Bed- 

 ford; description of a whale-boat, 123.) The Parker Cook, of Provincetown, 123. 

 Captain Huutting, 125. Furious attack by a right whale, 128. {Note. — Modes of 

 attack by the right and sperm whales, 126 ) (Note. — The secret of the weakness 

 cf the right whale overlooked by naturalists, 127.) Method of signaling to boats 

 from the ship, 128. (Notes. — Sunk whales ; different opinions as to the captain's 

 place, 129.) Fights with the savages ; the Awashouks, of Falmouth, 129. (Note. — 

 Vessels which have been attacked in a similar manner to the Awashouks, 131.) 

 Lost boats ; the Janet, of Westport, 132. (Note. — Statement of the Janet's mate; 

 the Massachusetts, of New Bedford; foul lines, 133.) Mutinies, 133. The Globe, 

 of Nantucket, 134. The Junior, of New Bedford, 135. (Note.— The William Penn, 

 of San Francisco, 136.) Polar whaling and its perils, 136. Letter from Captain 

 Pease, of the Champion, of Edgartown, 136. Letter from Captain Kelley, of the 

 James Allen, of New Bedford, 138. Heavier anchors and cables needed in Arctic 

 whaling, 139. Hudson's Bay, 139. (Notes. — Extract from Malta Brun ; the Ansel 

 Gibbs, of New Bedford, 139.) Horrible tale of the English whale-ship Diana, 140. 

 Shipwrecks: the Canton, of New Bedford, 140. The Junius and Logan, of New 



Bedford, 141. The Lawrence, of , 141. (A^o^c— The Manhattan, of Sag 



Harbor, rescues 22 shipwrecked Japanese ; doubts as to reported shipwrecks, 141.) 

 The Lagoda, of New Bedford, 142. (^Note. — One of the crew of the Plymouth, of 

 Sag Harbor, visits Japan, 142.) Fire; the Cassander, of Providence, 142. Boring- 

 worms, 144. The Minerva 2d, of New Bedford, 145. (Note. — The Niphon, of Nan- 

 tucket, 145.) 



G.— MISCELLANEOUS : 



Good voyages; the Wilmington and Liverpool packet, of New Bedford, 145. 

 The Uncas, of Falmouth, 146. The Loper, of Nantucket, 146. The Sarah, of Nan- 

 tucket, 146. The South America, of Hudson, 146. The Maguolia, of New Bedford, 

 146. The William Hamilton, of New Bedford, 146. The America, of Now Bed- 



