X CONTENTS. 



XVII. THE WHALE : AND THE 'WHALE-FISHERY. 

 Organization of the WHALE Adaptability to the conditions under which it 

 lives Its three skins Useful qualities of its blubber Characteristics 

 of the whale Its remarkable respiratory apparatus Its caudal fin, or 

 tail Its "breathing" or "blowing" Its senses Its organ of hearing 

 described Moral character of the whale Affection for its young 

 A whaling anecdote Waller's "Battle of the Summer Islands" Differ- 

 ent species of Cetacea The Greenland whale Its "baleen "or whale- 

 bone Its swiftness of motion Its food Anecdote illustrative of its 

 maternal affection Its principal products The cachalot, or sperm 

 whale Spermaceti described What is ambergris? Formidable char- 

 acter of the cachalot The whale-fishery British whaling-ships A 

 whaling-vessel and its crew Every one in his place Pursuit of "a fish" 

 "A fall! a fall!" A swift chase The capture A narrow escape 

 Dangers of whale-fishing Anecdotes Securing the prize Cutting-up 

 the whale " Making-off " described The king of fishes The whale- 

 fishery at Vadso A new mode of killing The dead leviathan Whales 

 at Shetland The Shetland fishery Stories of adventure and peril 

 Danger and a rescue The ship of death The American whaler Essex 

 A boat capsized "We have lost Carr ! " Romance of the north 

 Another catastrophe The herbivorous Cetacea Tritons and mermaids 

 The manatee The dugong 352-425 



XVIII. THE SEAL: AND THE SEAL-FISHERY. 



General description of the SEAL Its physiology described Its senses 

 Capable of being tamed The land of winter Habits of the seal Seals 

 at home Hunted by the Eskimos The seal and her cub The fur seal 

 The common seal Hector M'Intyre and the phoca The harp or 

 Greenland saddleback seal Its characteristics The bearded seal The 

 marbled and the crested seals The sea-lions of the South Pacific The 

 sea-elephant The seal-fishery The Newfoundland sealers Seals in the 

 Newfoundland waters A seal-hunt Hazards of the fishery" Running 

 ice" Ships employed in the fishery "Weighing and cutting" 

 Antiquity of the seal-fishery Value of the seal An Eskimo seal- 

 banquet The Eskimo seal-hunters Seal-fishing in the Baltic The 

 Shetland seal-hunters Off Labrador 426-464 



XIX. CORAL : AND THE CORAL-FISHERY. 



What is CORAL? What it was supposed to be, and what it is Reproduction 

 of the corallines Three kinds of gemmation Reproduction by fission 

 Formation of what is popularly called coral Coral-banks, islands, and 

 reefs Gradual elaboration of a coral-reef The coral-fishery In the 

 Strait of Messina The divers and their hazardous pursuit Their habits 

 Different kinds of coral How coral is worked 465-487 



XX. CURIOUS FISHES AND MODES OF FISHING. 

 Volcanic fishes Prennadillas Fish in Artesian Wells Showers of fish The 

 ECHENEIS, remora, or sucking-fish Ancient fables about the remora 

 A story from Julian A quotation from Oppian Complex apparatus of 

 the remora How it works Catching turtle with the echeneis The 

 pilot-fish Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and what he saw 488-506 



