CONTENTS. 



REFACE to Second Edition 

 Dedication . 



Page 

 v 



Introduction by E ear-Admiral Slierard 

 Osborn, C.B., F.R.S. . . . xxv 



Chapter I. — The Dundee Whalers. 



Subjects of the work, page 2 ; Master Beste's introduction, 3 ; 

 Progress of the whale fishery, 4 ; The cargo of a whaler, 

 5 ; List of Dundee whalers, 6 ; The " Arctic " whaler, 8 : 

 Scale of pay, 11 ; Duties of the crew, 13 ; Kindness re- 

 ceived in Dundee, 14. 



Chapter II. — " Spanning on." 



Our departure, 17; Mustering the crew, 18; "Dulse," 19 ; 

 My messmates, 20 ; Home sickness, 21 ; " Store day," 21 ; 

 Dirty weather, 22 ; Blowing a gale, 23 ; Cape Farewell. 

 24 ; Equipping the boats, 25 ; Directions for whaling. 30 ; 

 Collisions with the ice, 31 ; Killing a seal, 32 ; The crow's 

 nest, 33 ; Bottle-nosed whales, 35. 



