INDEX 



Motion-picture film, 100, 101 

 Miiller, Mr., 264 

 Murderer's Cove, 4, 46 

 Mystacoceti. See Whalebone 

 whales 



Nagasaki, 77 



Nannaimo, Vancouver Island, 



Pacific Whaling Com- 

 pany erected a station at, 



185 



Narwhal, 269, 276 

 National Geographic Magazine, 



vi 



Naturalist, 16, 19, 20, 54 

 Ne Taihei, 104 

 Nets, for catching whales, 6 

 New Bedford, Mass., i, 2, 16, 



239, 278 



New Bedford whalers, 238 

 New England states, i 

 Newfoundland, 4, 5, 23, 24, 45, 



75, 140, 144, 146, 178, 



296, 297, 301 



Newfoundland fishery, 298 

 New York, 91, 295 

 New York Aquarium, 218, 278 

 New York Zoological Society, 



278, 280 



New Zealand, 6, 89, 140, 265 

 Nilsen, Captain, 69, 146 

 North Atlantic Ocean, 123, 124, 



263, 291, 295 

 North Atlantic right whale, 



245, 296 



North Cape, 3, 176 

 Norway, i, 3, 5, 9, 24, 126, 147, 



258, 304 

 Norwegian captains, authentic 



instances related by, 72 



Norwegian fishermen, relation 

 to whaling, 3 



Norwegian gunner, 14 



Norwegian whalers, 4 



Norwegians, 5, 16, 23, 24, 75, 

 122, 143, 181, 210, 258 



Nostrils, 44, 55 



Nova Zembla, 263 



Nursing of whales, 74 



Nye, Joseph K., owner of por- 

 poise fishery at New 

 Bedford, Mass., 278 



Odontoceti, 67 



Offices, ii 



Ogiwara, D., vi 



Ohlin, Axel, 259 



Okhotsk Sea, 203, 249 



Olsen, Captain Fred, vii, 105, 



129, 130, 132, 133, 135, 



136, 137, 138, 230, 238, 



263 



Orca gladiator, 289 

 Orca or killer whale, enemy of 



other whales, 197, 199, 



2OO, 201, 219, 220, 221, 



223, 261 

 Oriental Whaling Company, 



Ltd., 78 



Orion, 24, 25, 30, 33, 38 

 Osaka, vi, 5, 121 

 Osborn, Henry Fairfield, vi 

 Oshima, 80, 91, 152 

 Outing, vi 



Pacific coast of America, 4, 64 



of Mexico, 5 

 Pacific Ocean, 124, 142, 183, 



184, 202, 263, 264, 295, 



301, 304 



329 



