LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Ready to sail ...... Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



Trying out blubber on deck . . . . .68 



Towing whales to the Onondar Fiord trying house, Ice- 

 land . . . * ' -. . . .128 



Off for a two years' cruise . . . . . .160 



Sperm whaling The chase . . . . . 188 



Entangled whale diving . . . . . .226 



Cutting in a whale . . . . . . .276 



Ships receiving the captains, officers, and crews of aban- 

 doned ships ... . . . . . 304 



View of the Stone Fleet which sailed from New Bedford, 



November 16, 1861 . . . . . 384 



Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean, Sep- 

 tember, 1871 ...... 402 



