INDEX. 
Aleuts, mode of capturing the Sea Lion by. 136 
American "Whale -fishery, The. . . 185-275 
whaling commerce 185, 209, 240, 241 
Anderson on early whaling commerce 18G 
Arctic, Bowheads of the 58 
ice fields, whales in 31 
Baidarka ( skin -boat) 46 
Baidarra (large opien skin -boat) 32 
Baird's Dolphin 99 
BaUena mysticetus, anatomy of 308 
Baleen of seven species of whalebone whales. 55 
Banded Seal 140 
Barnacle, species of 21 
Bay Porpoise 95 
Bay - whaling, commencement of 23 
Beale on ambergris 82 
on nature of Sperm Whale food 80 
Behring Sea, whale first taken in 213 
Strait, when ships can j3ass through.... 59 
Belon's description of Right "Whale 187 
Blackfish 85 
description of 85 
how captured 87 
measurements of 86 
oil product of 87 
where formerly found and favorite resort. 87 
Boat, peculiar form of, used in capture of 
the Sea Otter 170 
Bomb -gun 26 
Bottlenosed Grampus 104 
Bowhead, or Great Polar "Whale 52-65 
Bowheads of the Arctic, classification of . . . . 58 
of Okhotsk Sea 60 
Browne, J. Ross, chronological account of 
whaling commerce by 185 
Brownsided Dolphin 106 
Bryant, Captain, account of the Fur Seal 
by 156-163 
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"Bunchbacks" 61 
Butler, Ben 130 
Cachalot ( French for Sperm "Whale ) 74 
California Academy of Sciences, Proceedings 
of 21, 38 
< '.ilifornia Gray Whale 20-33 
California shore -whaling 247 
lagoons, whaling in the 259 
Carmel Bay, whaling station at 250 
Cetacea of the North Pacific, Catalogue of. . 281 
Cetaceans, prefatory remarks to 17-19 
age of 18 
descending movements of 19 
propulsion of 19 
sexual habits of 18 
species of 17 
time of gestation of 18 
Cuttle-fishes 79 
Cowfish 101 
description of 101 
habits of 101 
where observed 101 
Coxe, notice of Sea Otter 169 
Dall, W. H., Catalogue of Cetacea of North 
Pacific 281 
description of parasites by 21, 38, 57 
Desolation Island, hunting the Sea Elephant 
on 122-123 
Dolphin, Baird's 99 
description of 99 
habitat of 99 
measurements of 100 
Brownsided, of Santa Barbara Channel, 
description of •. 106 
Dolphins 85-109 
rapacity of 18 
varieties of 85 
Dutch and English, whaling -voyages of the. 1S8 
Marine Mammal?.- 41. 
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