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Index 



Right Whale — {contiuued) 



food of, 41 



whalebone, 42 



gullet of, 42 



schools of, 43 



sluggishness of, 43 



enemies of, 43-46 



range of, 46 



numbers of, 46 



life of, 47 



southern, 48-50 

 Rock Cod, 287 

 Rockall Bank, the, 64 

 Rocklings, 275, 287 

 Rogers, Professor, on sea-ser- 

 pents, 172 

 Rondeletia, 155 

 Rorquals, the, 59-72 



solitariness of, 60 



value of, C2 



fishing for, 62 



omnivorousness of, 64 



damage done by, 65 



species of, 66 



speed of, 68 

 Ross, Sir J., 401 

 Rothschild, Hon. W,, 405 

 ' Rotomahana,' 167 



Sable Island, 279 



Saccopharynxflagelluin, 1 56 



Saddle-back Seal, 90 



'St. Helena Beef,' 253 



St. Ives, pilchard fishing at, 298 



St. Paul's Rocks, 190 



Salmo arcticus, 280 



Salmon taken to New Zealand, 



321 

 Salting fish, 208-220 

 Sapphirine Gurnard, 235 

 Sardine, 306 



decrease of, 306 



range of, 307 

 Sargasso Sea, 191, 227, 243 

 Sargasso Weed, 417 

 Sargassum bacciferum, 242 

 Saw-fish, 98, 107 

 Scombridae, 100-103, 128 

 Sea, the temperature of, in 



life at bottom of, 147-164 



Sea Bear, 90 



Sea Cow, the, 73 



Sea Elephant, the, 83-89 



description of, 83 



nose of, 83 



numbers of, 83 



hunting for, 84-88 



food of, 88 



lot of, 89 

 Sea Horse, See Walrus. 

 Sea Hippopotamus, 83-89 

 Sea Leopard, 90 

 Sea Lion, 90 

 Sea Slug, 123 

 Sea Swallow, 123 

 Sea Turtles, 121 

 Sea Vitch, "jj 

 Seals, 90-96 



speed of, 90 



life of, 91 



abstinence of, 91 



contests of, 91 



young of, 93 



range of, 94 



enemies of, 94 



hunting for, 95 



intelligence of, 96 

 Sea-serpent, the, 152 



various reports of, 165- 181 

 Seaweed, 417-422 

 Seton-Thompson, Ernest, 9 

 Shakespeare quoted, 68 

 Shark, Thresher, the, foe of right 



whales, 45 

 Sharks, 97-113 



have no bones, 97 



description of, 98 



eater of human flesh, 98 



appetite of, 99 



life-story of, 99-106 



superstitions about, I04 



fishing for, 105 



young of, 105 



species of, 106 



voracity of, 109 



range of, in 



as food, 314 

 Sicily, 184 

 Silliman, Professor, on sea 



serpents, 172 



