INDEX 



Engine house, u 

 England, 9, 265 

 Epiglottis, 44 

 Eskimos, 251, 252, 253 

 Eubalcuna glacialis. See Right 



whale 

 Euphausia inermis, 67, 126, 301 



Pagan, D. W. O., quoted, 8 



Falkland Islands, 9, 123, 230, 

 304 



Fanshaw, Cape, 47 



Faroe Islands, 9, 263, 291 



Feed, 47 



Feeding, 50 



Feeding operations, 68 



Fertilizer, 36, 37, 88 



Finback, 19, 24, 39, 46, 55, 56, 

 57, 59, 61, 62, 70, 91 122, 

 127, 129, 143, 158, 160, 

 164, 1 66, 169, 172, 173, 

 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 

 183, 185, 223, 305, 306 

 Millais' description of kill- 

 ing, 181, 182 



Finland, 296 



Finmark, 3, 122, 263 

 accident off coast of, 72 



Finners, 2 



Fins, 148, 149 



Fin whale, 2, 3, 143, 153, 223, 



297, 304 



mating and pairing of, 73 

 small fish eaten by, 69 

 value of baleen of, 37 



Flensing knives, 81 



Flensing slip, n, 36 



Flippers, 35, 149 



Floating factories, 9 

 development of, 301, 302 



Flukes, 148 



Food, ii 



Formosa, 77 



Foyn, Svend, inventor of har- 

 poon-gun, i, 2, 16 

 best years of (1871-1880), 3 



Frederick Sound, 4, 46, 59 



French Antarctic Expedition, 

 124 



Fukushima, 105 



Fur seal, 204, 208 



Fusan, 191 



Galapagos Islands, 9 

 Globicephalus brachypterus, 



295 



Globicephalus melas, 291 

 Globicephalus scammoni, 295 

 Glue, 37 

 Gracia, whaling ship sunk by a 



finner, 176 

 Grahame, Captain Charles, 46, 



58, 59, 158, 168, 169, 173 

 Grampus, 220 

 Grampus griseus, 221 

 Gray, Captain David, 258, 259, 



262 



Gray whale, 198, 199 

 diseases of, 210, 212, 214, 305 

 food of, 207 

 migration of, 202 

 period of gestation of, 204 

 Great Britain, 304 

 Great Dismal Swamp Canal, 



283 



Greenland, 9, 240, 263, 296 

 Greenland right whale, 245, 



247 



Grind, 291, 292, 294 

 Guana, 37 ' 



326 



