INDEX 



ACCOUNTS, difficulties in the, 43 



Aften-mad, 72 



Alexandra Whaling Station, 63, 67 



Allan, Miss Sheila, 108 



Ambergris, 22, 159, 314 



Ammunition, 40- 



Anatomy of a whale, 159 



Anchor, accident to our, 46 



Arctic and Antarctic compared, 187, 



189 



Arctic Fox, 278 

 Arctic grouse, 278 

 Ardnamurchan, 107 

 Azores, the, 165 



B 



BAL.ENA, the, 51, 104 

 Balaena Mysticetus, 21, 312 

 Balaenoptera Borealis, 69 

 Balsenoptera musculus, 17 

 Balsenoptera Sibbaldii, the, 17 

 Baleen or whalebone, 313 

 Balkan, Mrs, 31 

 Balta Sound, 14 

 Bear and cubs, 258 

 Bear-hunting, accidents in, 225 

 Bear yarns, 216 

 Bearded seal, 269 

 Bears, stalking, 193 ; dangers, 194, 



196; size and weight, 198; 



stalking, 199, 200 ; lassoing, 210, 



213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 224, 227, 



241, 247 

 Belfast, 116 



Birthday celebration, a, 105 

 Blowing up, 87 

 Blue seal, 269 

 Blue sharks, 162 

 Bottle-nose whale, 282 

 Bowhead or Right whale, 21 

 Bressay Light, 55 

 Britannia Club, the, 31 

 Bruce, Dr W. S., 179 

 Bull-fight on deck, 262 

 Bull versus bear, 285 



317 



C 



CABINS, 28 



Cachalot, 18 



Caches, 215 



Calving bergs, 271 



Caribou and whale, colours of the, 



94 



Garros, 166 

 Case or forehead, 160 

 Casperg, Captain, 89 

 Chanteys, 102 

 Christiania Fiord, 27 

 Clarence Island, 31 

 Clothes, darned and patched, 73 

 Cod liver oil, 208 

 Colla Firth, 18 



Colours in Arctic regions, 192 

 Colours of the sea, 77 

 Colours of the whale, 93 

 Cormorants and gulls, 60 

 Cormorants, on cooking, 65 

 " Cruise of the Cachalot," the, 22 

 Cubs, lassoing, 264 

 Customs officers, 58 

 Cutting up a whale, 159 

 Cuttlefish and whales, 254 



DANGERS of whaling, 89, 260 

 De Gisbert, F. A., 180 

 Dolphins, 127 

 Dreams, 227 

 Drimnin, 108 

 Dundee whalers, 21 



E 



EMBRYOS of whale, 94 

 Engine troubles, 50, 148 

 Explosive bombs, 23 



FACTORIES, shore and floating, 313 

 Falkland Islands, 24, 314 



