561 



Tubfish, 452 



Tunny, the, and tunny fishing, 

 315, 325-328, 462, 466 ; mode 

 of capture, 467 ; at Zanzibar, 



474 



Turbot, 400, 402, 466 

 Turbrat, 403 

 Turtles, 485 

 Twisted gut, 80 

 Twisted snoods, 80 

 Two-hook tackle, 117 

 TV ( 'roes, 45 



UNITED STATES, 416, 488 



VADSO whale fishery, 542 



Valentia Island, 41 



Varanger Fjord, w-hnling in, 543 



Varm, 131 



Victoria, 475 



Viper weever, 458, 460 



WAGES, in the whale fisheries, 517 

 Waikato River, New Zealand, 484 

 Wales, fishing off, 349 

 Walton-on-the-Naze, 60, 342 

 Wash, the, 61 

 Wasp grubs, 364 

 Waterburn, 383 

 Waterville Bay, Kerry, 41 

 Wax, 66 



Weevers, 458-460 

 Weights, 28, 230, 249 

 West coast of Scotland, sea fish- 

 ing on, 37 

 Wexford, 42 

 Weymouth, 53, 355, 359 

 Whaleboats, 520-526 ; American, 



535 



Whalebone, value of, 517 

 Whale lines, 521, 525, 532, 535, 



542 ; splicing, 522 ; coiling, 



522 



WH1 



Whale oil, 517 ; price of, 530, 



535 



Whalers, curious custom of, 391 



Whales and thrasher, 443 ; Green- 

 land, 513 ; bottlenose, 529 ; 

 other varieties, 536, 542 



Whaling, 513 ; derivation of the 

 word 'fall,' 51372. ; capturing 

 a Greenland whale, 514-517 ; 

 profits and risks of, 517 ; grow- 

 ing scarcity of whaler, 518 ; the 

 vessels employed, 518 ; timidity 

 of the Greenland whale, 520 ; 

 build and fittings of the whale- 

 boats, 520 ; lines, and harpoons, 

 521, 538-541 ; full equipment of 

 a large-sized boat , 525 ; method 

 of working the oars, 525 ; 

 dangers of the pursuit, 526-528, 

 532 ; books on, 528, 538 ; the 

 bottlenose whale fishery, 529 ; 

 the mode of capture, 530 ; an 

 amusing episode, 532 ; Ameri- 

 can whalers, 535 ; harpoon 

 guns, 538 ; the Finmarken 

 fisheries, 541 



Whaling vessels, 518, 519, 527, 

 528, 530, 542 



Wheat taken by sea bream, 449 



Whelks used for bait, 130, 289, 

 420 



Whiffing, 256-263, 282, 369, 375, 



384 

 Whippings, materials for, 66 ; 



how to finish off, 68, 70 

 Whip ray, 412 

 Whitby, 63 



Whitebait, 130, 150, 208 

 Whitebait fly, 147, 149, 162, 



351 



White-eye, 431 

 White-herring, 390 

 White-hound, 442 

 White-mullet, 348 

 White salmon, 348 

 Whitesand Bay, Land's End, 358 



