INDEX. 



Aleuts, mode of capturing tlie Sea Lion by. 13G 



American Whale -fishery, The. 185-275 



whaling commerce 185, 209, 240, 241 



Anderson on early whaling commerce 186 



Arctic, Bowheads of the 58 



ice fields, whales in 31 



Baidarka ( skin - boat ) 46 



Baidarra (large ojien skiy-boat) 32 



Baird's Dolphin 99 



Balcena mydicetus, anatomy of 308 



Baleen of seven species of whalebone whales. 55 



Banded Seal 140 



Barnacle, species of 21 



Bay Porijoise 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 j)ass through.... 59 



Belon's description of Right Whale 187 



Blackfish 85 



description of 85 



how caj^tured 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, clas.sification 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" 01 



Butler, Ben 130 



Cachalot ( French for Sjierm Whale ) 74 



California Academy of Sciences, Proceedings 



of 21, 38 



California 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 



p)rof)ulsion of 19 



sexual habits of 18 



species of 17 



time of gestation of 18 



Cuttle-fishes 79 



Cowfish 101 



descri23tion 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 2)ai"asites 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 



Doli^hins 85-109 



rapacity of 18 



varieties of 85 



Dutch and English, whaling -voyages of the. 188 



Marine Mammalf.— 41. 



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