INDEX 



Sea leopard, 220 



Seals, 213 



Seattle, 249 



Sechart, 4, 22, 24, 33, 73, 74 



cutting operations at, 37 

 Sei whale, 91, 104, 105, 120, 

 125, 127, 185, 305 



food of, 126 



habits of, 123 



migrations of, 124 



origin of name, 122 



parasite on body of, 124 



speed of, 97 

 Seje, 122 



Sharps, 117, 118, 119, 121 

 Shetlands, 9, 146 

 Sherwood, George H., vii 

 Shimonoseki, vi, 78, 91 

 Shiro-nagasu, 130, 178 

 Shiro-nagasu kujira, 80 

 Shirosaki (white blubber 



whale), 214 

 Shore stations, 9, 20 

 Shore whaling, 19 



development of, I 



operations of Japanese and 

 Russians in, 5 



plea for proper legislation 

 of, 305, 306 



revenue from, 2 

 Shrimps, 68, 69, 301 

 Siberia, coast of, 5, 146 

 Siwash Indians, 186 

 Sleep, where whales, 60 

 Slicing machine, 35 

 Slip, 20 

 Slocum, Victor, quoted, 240- 



244 



Smithsonian Institution, 219 

 Soft palate, 44 



Sorenson, the gunner, 50, 52, 



53, 63, 161, 164, 168, 171, 



172 

 Sorenson, wooden whale ship, 



sunk by a finback, 175 

 Sound produced by blowing, 55 

 Sounded, 63 

 Sounding, 39 

 South Africa, 5, 123 

 South America, 9, 249 

 South Atlantic grounds, 9 

 South Atlantic Ocean, n, 124, 



142, 302, 304 

 South Georgia Islands, 9, 142 



as whaling center, 302, 304 

 South Orkneys, 9, 304 

 South Sea Islands, 90 

 South Shetland Islands, 123, 



304 



Spain, 296 



Spes et Fides, ship, 3 



Sperm whale, 2, 67, 77, 91, 94, 

 95, M3, 177, 184, 223, 224, 

 225, 227, 228, 229, 230, 

 232, 238, 239, 261, 263, 

 265 



killed in Japan for the Amer- 

 ican Museum, 235 



Spermaceti, 225, 261 



Spitzbergen, 9, 263, 296 



Spout, 45, 55, 56 

 height and density of the, 44 



Spouting, 43, 50, 55 

 number of times of, by 

 humpback, 56 



Squid, 226, 230 



Steam whalers, effect of devel- 

 opment of, in capture of 

 finners, 2 



Steller's sea lions, 219 



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