14 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XL 



THE WHALE FISHERY AND ITS PERILS, 



Page 



Description of ships employed in the whale fishery — Hard work in 



the Polar seas — Mode of fisliing — The harpoon — Struggles of the 

 ■whale — Disappointment of a Dutch whaler — Dead whales — Cut- 

 ting up the whales — Whale fishery in the southern seas — Inci- 

 dent to the Elssex in the Pacific Ocean — Ship destroyed by a 

 collision with a whale— Story of a Dutch harpooner — New 

 Zealand Tom— Incident in the Pacific to the whaling vessel 

 Independence — Paying out the rope — Incident to the whaling 

 vessel Aimwell — Loss of the Princess Charlotte — Wonderful 

 escape of the Trafalgar — Calamities of a whaling squadron — The 

 Rattler— The Achilles 154—167 



CHAPTER XII. 



SHARKS THE PIRATES OF THE 6CEAN. 



Fossil sharks — Enormous teeth — The white shark — Its extreme vo- 

 racity — Great tenacity of life — Its preference for human flesh — 

 Horrible tragedy — Habit of bounding out of the sea — Punishing 

 a shark — Manner of catching sharks in the South Sea Islands — 

 Captain Basil Hall's account of the capture of a shark — Worship 

 of sharks by the inhabitants — Rapacity of the shark — Hooks for 

 shark fishing — Fearful incident to the crew of the "Magpie" — 

 The hammer headed shark — The smooth shark — Dog fish — Angel 

 fish — Greenland shark — Basking shark — Taken for the sea ser- 

 pent — ^Pilot fish— Companion to the shark— Pilot fish described. 168—185 



CHAPTER XIII. 



SEA-HORSES AND NARWAHLS. 



The morse walrus or sea-horse — Description — Immense slaughter of 

 them — For what purposes — Ferocity when attacked — Affec- 

 tion for its young — Battles between the walrus and the Polar 

 bear — The sword fish a fierce enemy — Sea unicorn — Described — 

 Color — Their habits — Mode of catching them — Herd in flocks — 

 Playfulness — Its speed , , 186—195 



