CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XIX 

 A STRANGE GIANT OF THE OCEAN 



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The giant sperm whale Spermaceti Ambergris Teeth 

 Scrimshawing Food Size Blowing and Diving 

 Sperms off the Japan coast Ferocity Length of 

 life in whales 224 



CHAPTER XX 

 A DEEP-SEA SPERM WHALE HUNT 



Old-time whaling Killing with a hand lance "Diary 



of a Whaling Cruise,'' by Mr. Slocum .... 238 



CHAPTER XXI 

 THE RIGHT WHALE AND BOWHEAD 



The beginning of whaling The right whale and bow- 

 head Valuable whalebone Right whales killed with 

 the harpoon-gun How bowheads are hunted The 

 Eskimo whalers A right whale- captured at Ama- 

 gansett, Long Island 245 



CHAPTER XXII 

 



THE BOTTLENOSE WHALE AND HOW IT IS HUNTED 



Hunting the bottlenose whale Habits of the bottlenose 

 Peculiarities of the ziphioid whales Teeth of 

 Layard's and Gray's whales Skulls Existing ziph- 

 ioid whales the last survivors of an ancient race . 258 



