INDEX. 
Page 
Eschriclit on the nature of Orca food 90 
Esquimaux whaling -boat, description of.... 31 
Finback "Whale 34-36 
Northern 3G 
Fur Seals 141-163 
Glossary of Words and Phrases used by 
whalemen 309 
Godman, notice of Narwhal 107 
Gramrjus, Bottlenosed, description of 104 
oil product of 104 
Panama, description of 104 
Puget Sound, description of 105 
San Diego Bay, description of 105 
Squareheaded, description of 106 
"White-headed or Mottled, description of.. 103 
Gray, notice of Humpback Whale 43 
Greener's Harpoon-gun, how used 27 
Gun, utility of 248 
Herd's Island, hunting Sea Elephant on. 120-122 
Holboll on rapacity of Orca 92 
Humpback Whale 38-48 
Hunting Sea Otter from the shore 172 
Indian mode of hunting Sea Otter 173 
Indians, method of capturing Fur Seal by. . 154 
of the North - western Coast, whaling 
among the 29, 30 
Japan Coast, Sperm Whale, where first dis- 
covered on the 212 
Karaginski Island, whales taken off 59 
Lagoon -whaling, disasters of 260 
incidents 265 
voyage, success of 264 
Leopard Seal 164-167 
Life and characteristics of American whale- 
men 252 
Lindeman, Dr., notice of early whale-fishery. 189 
List of Store's and Outfits 313 
Macy's notice of the Beaver's outfit 216 
Magdalena Bay, whaling in 270 
Marten, Frederic, notice of a whaling -voyage 
in 1671 190 
M'Culloch on early whaling commerce 187 
Monterey, whaling in the Bay of 44 
Nantucket, early whaling commerce of 208 
whaling, early manner of 206 
Narwhal 107 
description of 107 
food of 108 
habitat of 107 
Northern Finback Whale 36 
Right Whale grounds 214 
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Oil and Bone, price of, from 1835 to 1872. 242 
Oil, manner of trying -out 238 
taken in California shore -whaling 250 
whale, statistics from 1762 to 1770 206 
Okhotsk Sea, Bowhead Whales of 60 
first capture of Bowhead Whales in ... . 60 
Orca, or Killer 88 
description of 88 
ferocity of 89 
food of 90 
habitat of 89 
higli and low -finned 89 
mating season of 92 
rapacity of 92 
Origin and ancient mode of whale - fishing. . 185 
Otter, Sea 168-174 
distribution of 169 
food of 169 
form of 168 
mode of capture 170 
number captured 174 
whether numbers decreasing 174 
Pacific, first whaling in the 205 
Sperm Whale, when first captured in.. 209 
Panama Grampus 104 
Parasitical crustaceans 21 
Peru, whaling-voyages to the coast of 210 
Pierce's Bomb-lance Gun, description of... 228 
Pinnipedia 113-181 
food of 113 
introduction to description of 113 
mode of locomotion of 113 
Poole, Captain, measurement of Bowhead 
Whale by 53 
Porpoise, Bay 95 
description of 95 
habits of 97 
measurements of 96 
Right-whale 101 
description of 101 
habitat of 101 
Striped or Common 98 
description of 98 
habitat of 98 
habits of 98 
Post-offices, whaleship 253 
Pottfisch ( German for Sperm Whale ) 74 
Puget Sound Grampus 105 
Right W r hale of the North-western Coast.. 66-69 
Right Whale Porpoise 101 
Rotch, William, visit to England and France. 217 
