TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Origin and Localities of the Whale Fishery Biscayan and 

 Dutch Whalemen New England Bay Whaling First 

 Sperm Whale in the Deep Sea Statistics of History, 

 Growth, and Value of the Whale Fishery Sources of In- 

 formation Whaling Literature and Whaling Life Page 21 



CHAPTER II. 



A SOUTH SEA CORAL ISLAND. 



Tropic Island of Rimatara Letter from the Natives Land- 

 ing through the Surf Characteristics of the People King 

 Temaeva Walk into the Interior Island Metropolis 

 Foot-prints of Christianity Native Hospitality Regretful 

 Good-by Contrast between a People with the Book and 

 without A Cut-off and a Recovery A Shipwreck and a 

 Rescue Reasoning of a South Sea Islander Tahitian 

 Th eology 32 



CHAPTER III. 



RAISING AND CUTTING-IN WHALES. 



Whalemen's Electrifier Pursuit and Capture of the first New 

 Zealand Whale A Post-mortem Survey of the Carcass 

 Process of Securing and Cutting-in the Blubber Lure of 

 Birds and Sharks Firing up at the Try-works Poetry and 

 Prose of the Leviathan . . 52 



