TABLE OF CONTENTS. 707 



E.— WHALE-FISHERY from 1784 to 1816— Continued. 



fishery, 87.) Effect of foreign bounties on the American fishery, 87. Founding of 

 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 88. {Note. — Why the transfer from Nantucket to Nova 

 Scotia suddenly stopped ; Mr. Rotch returns to the United States 1796, 88.) Milford 

 Haveu supplants Dartmouth, 88. The Dunkirk transfer not a success, 88. France 

 favors the United States, 89. (Notes. — Consumption of oil iD France; comparative 

 statement of the English and American fisheries in 1775 and 1788, 89.) Revival of 

 the fishery in the United States, 90. Vessels fitting out for the Pacific Ocean, 90. 

 (Notes. — Sag Harbor and New Bedford recommence whaling; the Pacific fishery ; 

 singular incident in Woolwich Bay, 90.) French spoliations, 91. (Notes. — Report 

 that England would monopolize the Delago Bay ground ; sensitiveness of the 

 people of Nantucket on the subject of spoliations, 91.) Ships seized and con- 

 demned in Spanish America, 92. Augmentation of the whaling-fleet, 92. (Note. — 

 East Haddam and New London vessels, 92.) The war of 1812, 92. Rapid diminu- 

 tion of the fleet by capture, 92. (Notes. — Meeting of ship-owners at Nantucket, 92 ; 

 captured whalemen used in the English fishery, 93.) Lima seizes American whale- 

 men, 93. Poinsett effects their release by the eloquence of powder and balls, 93. 

 (Notes. — The Nanina, of New York, betrayed by a rescued English crew ; the Sally 

 and Triton, of New Bedford, captured, 93.) Captain Porter sent to the Pacific to 

 protect American shipping, 94. Destruction of the English Pacific fishery, 94. 

 (Notes. — Capture and recapture of the Walker and the Barclay, of New Bedford ; 

 amusing anecdote of a duel, 94.) An English privateer on the coast, 94. (Note. — 

 Vessels captured by Porter, 95.) Peace, 95. Resumption of whaling, 95. Activity 

 of the people of Nantucket, 95. (Note. — Degrand on the Nantucket fleet, 95.) 

 Strong competition, 96. New grounds opened, 96. (Note. — Amusing but rather 

 erroneous prophecy of Nantucket captains, 96.) Daring of the "toilers of the sea," 

 97. Wilkes, Perry, and Maury indebted to our whalemen for much information ; 

 Agassiz on the Hayes expedition ; cruelties practiced upon the South Sea islanders, 

 and their legitimate fruits, 97. Even the Red Sea invaded, 98. The golden age of 

 whaling, 98. The Kodiah ground, 9S. The first bow-head whale, 98. (Note. — 

 Difference of opinion as to who first ascertained the value of the bow-head, 98.) 

 Captain Royce enters the Arctic, 98. (Note. — Extract from the Saratoga's log, 98.) 

 (Note. — Record of thirteen Arctic whalemen in 1849, 99.) Gradual diminution of 

 the fleet, 100. (Notes. — Ludicrous fears of a manufacturer; revival of the English 

 South Sea fishery ; San Francisco, Monterey, and Crescent City become whaling 

 ports; remarkable journey of wrecked oil, 100.) The rebellion and its effect upon 

 whaling, 100. Capture of whalemen, 101. Atrocious manner of capture, 101. Sale 

 and transfer of vessels, 101. The stone fleets, 101. (Note. — History of the Corea, 101.) 

 The Shenandoah enters the Pacific, 102. Fearless conduct of Captain Young, of 

 the bark Favorite, 102. (Notes. — Names of the stone fleet and the captured whale- 

 men, 102.) Captain Nye mans his boats to warn his brother whalemen, 103. Rav- 

 ages of the Shenandoah, 103. Alacrity with which the sea-port towns responded 

 to the calls for men, 103. (Note. — Whaling-agents in Payta tender their services 

 to the government, 103.) Terrible disaster in the Arctic, 103. (Note. — Table of 

 Arctic whaling, 103.) (Note.— Protest of the captains of the beleaguered whale-ships, 

 107.) (Note. — Names and value of the fleet, 108 ; condition of what was left in 1872, 



