viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



NEW ZEALAND CRUISING GROUND. 



Physiology of the Right Whale Points of Difference in the 

 Sperm Mammoth Dimensions Clinical Notes Provi- 

 dential Peculiarities of Structure Right-whale Feed 

 Polar Pasture-ground and Greenland Medusse Disastrous 

 Losses by Sinking How to be obviated Different Expe- 

 dients Page 66 



CHAPTER V. 

 THE WHALE'S PHYSIOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY. 



Minute Description from Nature of the Balaeua Mysticetus 

 Manner of the Whale in Feeding Blubber Boiling Oily 

 Plight of the Ship and Crew Sea Soap and Sand Scrub- 

 bing Raising more Whales Chase, Fight, and Capture 

 Return to the Ship with a Prize The Galvanism for weary 

 Muscles 79 



CHAPTER VI. 



DIFFERENT CRUISING GROUNDS AND NORTHWEST WHALING. 



A Whaleman's Autobiography in Rhyme Different Kinds of 

 Whale in the Nomenclature of Whalers Razor-back and 

 Fin-back described Resorts of the Right Whale Great 

 Harvest Field of the Northwest Vast Havoc of Game there 

 Prowess and Sagacity of the Kamtschatka Whale Be- 

 ginning and Progress of Northwest Whaling New Arctic 

 Cruising-ground Probable Duration of this Whaling 

 Maury's Attempt to reduce the Whale's Times and Seasons 

 to a System Fact and Speculation A Problem for Pos- 

 terity 95 



