Index 



429 



Simenchetys, tJJ 

 Sirenia, 73-76 



vegetarianism of, 74 

 Skate, 98, 112 



a gigantic, 112 

 Skip-jack, 102, 133, 217 

 Sleep of animals, 363 

 Smith, Mr. S., 372 

 Snapper, 327 

 Snoek, 318 



Solander Ground, 36, 37 

 Soles, 326 

 South Georgia, 84 

 South Island, 25 

 South Shetlands, 84 

 Southern Right Whale, 48-50 

 Sperm Whale, autobiography of, 

 13-38 



head of, 14 



school of, 14 



eyes of, 14 



parasites of, 20 



wound of, 23 



contest with cuttle-fish, 24 



growth of, 25 



warning of danger, 27 



chase of, 27 



prisoned by iceberg, 29 



food of, 30 



sexes of, 31 



battles of, 32-36 



boats destroyed by, 36 



life of, 37 

 Spermaceti, 40 

 Spharga coriacea, ilj 



life-story of, 115-119 

 Sphyroena, 310 

 Sprat, the, 301 



sold as sardines, 302 



habits of, 303 



fishing for, 303 

 Squalidae, 98 

 Squalus maximus, 180 

 Squid. See also Decapods. 



facts about, 140 

 Stern Fitter, 375 

 Stewart Island, 128 

 Stickleback, 97 

 Sting Ray, 1 10 

 Stinker, 373 



Stork at sea, 396 

 Stormy Petrel, 368 



desciiption of, 369 



musky smell of, 370 



food of, 372 



life-story of, 376-385 

 Strabo, 123 

 Stronsa, fossil in, 180 

 Suckers, 44, 103, 108 

 Sucking-fish, 273 

 Sulphur Bottom Whale, 64 

 Sunday trading, 257 

 Swallows at sea, 395 

 Swordfish, the foe of right 

 whales, 44 



description of, 263-272 



fishing for, 264 



powers of, 264 



life-story of, 264-272 



enemies of, 267 



contests of, 270 



Tarpon, 308 



fishing for, 309 

 Thalassians, 121 

 Thresher Shark, the foe of right 

 whales, 45 



description of the shark, 98, 

 108 

 Thynntes sarda, 217-220 

 Thyrsi tes, 310 

 Thyrsiiops violaceus, 325 

 Tiger Shark, 98 

 Tile-fish, 159-162 

 Toilers of the Sea, 127 

 Tonga, 51 

 Trigla cuculus, 235 

 Trig la hirundo, 235 

 Tropic Bird, 356-358 

 Trout taken to New Zealand, 



321 

 Trumpeter, 327 

 Tunny. See Albacore 

 Turtle, the, 1 14-126 



description of, 114 



range of, 114 



life-story of, 115-119 



egg-laying, 118 



young of, 119 



food of, 121 



