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HoMethoe crabs as chicken food 665 



for fertilizing purposes 653, 655 



methods of catching 653 



mills for grinding 654 



qualities and uses of 652 



statistics of 658 



transplanting, to California 743 



Howell's History of Southampton cited 33 



Hudson Bay, length of voyages to 24 



number of whaling voyages to 174 



record of whaling voyages to 99,101 



whale fishery, origin of 94 



oil from 8 



whaling fleet in 3, 24 



in 18,149,150,152-164 



Hudson, N. Y., whaling fleet of 171 



Hudson River, natural oyster heds in 511 



Hudson Strait, whaling in 18 



Hull, England, whaling fleet of 198 



Hull, Mass., lohster fishery at 775 



Hurapbaok- whale fishery 153, 161 



grounds 22, 153 



oil, price of 154,157 



whales, distribution of 22 



former abundance of 28 



iu Gulf of Saint Lawrence ... 216 



Pacific Ocean 23 



number taken in California .. 60 



off coast of Maine 22 



on Nantucket Shoals 143 



Pacific coast 4,55 



quantity of oil from 56 



tendency to sink 270 



Huntingtom Bay, New York, blue-crab fishery at.. 636 



oyster beds in 534 



Huotington, N. Y 36 



hard clams at 605 



soft clams at 591 



Hutchinson, H. M., of Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany 382 



flyannis, Mass., scallops at 571, 575 



Hyas, species of crabs 658 



Hyperoodon rostratus, fishery for 204 



Ice, dangers from 79 



to whalers from 75,96,235 



hunting whales among the 20 



Iceland, bottle-nose whales at ...." 204 



Norwegian whaling at 195 



whaling at 23,98,192 



Ichaboe Island, fur seals at 416 



Imports of sperm oil into United Kingdom 154, 165 



Import trade in leeches 813 



Inaccessible Island, Tristam d'Acuuha 414 



Indian method of boiling mussels 620 



Indian Ocean, number of whaling voyages to 174 



right whales in 16 



sperm whaling in 12,70 



whale fuhery in .... 7, IS, 67, 144, 146, 148, 



149, 152-164 



oil front 8 



Indian porpoise hunters 308 



Indian River, Delaware, bine-crab fishery in 639 



Florida, tnrtl* fishery of 496 



Indian sea-otter hunters .. 684 



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Indian shell heaps 599 



use of mussels , 619 



shell-fish 599 



whalemen of Gay Heaa 218-220 



whalers at Nantucket 31 



Indians, clams prepared by 600 



Makah, sealing by 394 



sealing by 394 



use of oysters by 509 



whaling by , 22 



Ingersoll, Ernest, "Country Cotifuns" by 546 



on abalone nsnery 505, 622-626 



clam fisheries 505, 581-615 



mussel fishery 505 615-622 



oyster industry 505-565 



scallop fishery 605, 565-581 



Insurance on whaling vessels 152 



Ipswich, Mass., oysters at 509 



soft-clam fishery at 586 



Isaacs, A., on sponge trade 839 



Isle au Haut, Me., flounder fishery at 676 



lobster fishery at 752 



Islesboro', Me. , lobster fishery at 755 



Isles of Shoals, lobster fishery at 773 



Islip, N. Y., clam cannery at 606 



oyster planting at 533 



Ivory from sperm whales 72 



sea-lion teeth 474 



walrus 4,317,318,378 



Jacksonville, Fla., oysters at 512 



Jacobson, Herman, translation by 833 



Jamesport, N. Y., hard clams at 606 



scallop industry at 579 



whaling fleet of 171 



James River, Virginia, oysters in 522 



seed oysters in 525 



Jan Mayen, bottlenose whales at 204 



sealing at 475 



Japan current 324 



Japan Ground, whaling on 69 



Japan Sea, right whales in 17 



whaling in 94 



Japan, sperm whales near 12 



off coast of 11 



whaling ground, discovery of 69 



Jason Islands, sealing at 461 



Johns Hopkins University, publications cited 507 



Johnson, A. L., on lobsters 707 



Johnson, S. M., on lobster laws 727,729 



Jonah crab 629,649 



statistics of 658 



Jones, J. W., on lobsters '. 691 



lobster laws 730 



Jones, J. W., & Co., lobster cannery of 695,749, 



754,758,763 



Jonesport, Me., lobster fishery at ., 748 



lobsters at 706 



Jordan, Prof. D. S 487 



on abalones 628 



California sealing 473 



fur-seal industry 393 



mussels 621 



whaling in California 52 



Juan Fernandez, fur-sealing at 402 



