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 . . . . . 1 60 



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 



