INDEX. 



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Eschriclit on the nature of Orca food 90 



Esquimaux wlialiny-boat, description of.... 31 



Finback Whale 34-36 



Northern 36 



Fur Seals 141-163 



Glossary of Words and Phrases used l)y 



whalemen 309 



Godman, notice of Narwhal 107 



Grampus, Bottlenosed, description of 101 



oil jsroduct of 104 



Panama, description of 104 



Puget Sound, description of 105 



San Diego Bay, description of 105 



Squareheaded, description of 106 



Whiteheaded or Mottled, description of.. 103 



Gray, notice of Humjiback Whale 43 



Greener's Harpoon-gun, how used 27 



Gun, utility of 248 



Herd's Island, hunting Sea ElejAant 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 



voj'age, 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 Stores 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 



descrijition of 88 



ferocity of 89 



food of 90 



habitat of 89 



high and low -finned 89 



mating season of 92 



rajjacity 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 cajjture 170 



number captured 174 



whether numbers decreasing 174 



Pacific, first whaling in the 205 



Sjierm Whale, when first captured in.. 209 



Panama Gramjjus 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, Caj)tain, 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 



descrijition of 98 



habitat of 98 



habits of 98 



Post- oiBces, whaleship 253 



Pottfisch (German for Sperm Whale) 74 



Puget Sound Grampus 105 



Right Whale of the North-western Coast.. 66-69 



Right Whale Porpoise 101 



Rotch, William, visit to England and France. 217 



