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Aleuts, mode of capturing the Sea Lion by. 13G 



American Whale -fishery, The 185-275 



whahng commerce 185, 209, 210, 211 



Anderson on early whaling commerce 18G 



Arctic, Bowheads of the 58 



ice fields, whales in 31 



Baidarka (skin -boat) 40 



Baidarra (large open skin -boat) 32 



Baird's Dolphin 09 



Balcena ■myslicetu.s, anatomy of 308 



Baleen of seven species of whalebone whales. 55 



Banded Seal 110 



Barnacle, species of. 21 



Bay Porpoise 95 



Bay -whaling, commencement of 23 



Beale on ambergris 82 



on nature of Sperm Whale food 80 



Behring Sea, whale first taken in 213 



Strait, when ships can pass through.... 59 



Belon's descrijjtion of Eight Whale 187 



Blaokfish 85 



description of 85 



how captured 87 



measurements of 86 



oil product of 87 



where formerly found and favorite resort. 87 

 Boat, peculiar form of, used in capture of 



the Sea Otter 170 



Bomb - gun 26 



Bottlenosed Grampus 101 



Bowhead, or Great Polar Whale 52-65 



Bowheads of the Arctic, classification of . . . . 58 



of Okhotsk Sea GO 



Browne, J. Ross, chronological account of 



whaling commerce by 185 



Brownsided Dolphin 106 



Bryant, Captain, account of the Fur Seal 



by 156-163 



Marine Mamji.vl?.— 41. [ 



Taiik 



"Bunchbacks" Gl 



Butler, Ben 130 



Cachalot (French f(.ir Sjiorm Wliale) 71 



Califurnia Academy of Sciences, Proceedings 



of 21, 38 



California Gray ^'\'ll!llc 20-33 



California sliore -whaling 217 



lagoons, whaling in the 259 



Carmel Bay, whaling station at 250 



Cetacea of the Nortli Pacilic, Catalcjgue of.. 281 



Cetaceans, prefatory rcmarlcs to 17-19 



age of IS 



descending movements of 19 



propulsion of 19 



sexual lial>its of 18 



sjjecies of 17 



time (if gestation of 18 



Cuttle-fishes 79 



Cowfish 101 



description of 101 



haljits of 101 



where observed 101 



Coxe, notice of Sea Otter 109 



Dall, W. H., Catalogue of Cetacea of North 



Pacific 281 



description of parasites b}" 21, 38, 57 



Desolation Island, hunting the Sea Elephant 



on 122-123 



Dolphin, Baird's 99 



description of 99 



habitat of 99 



measurements of 100 



Brownsided, of Santa Barbara Channel, 



description of lOG 



Dolphins 85-109 



rapacity of I''' 



varieties of 85 



Dutch and English, whaling -voyages of the. 188 



