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INDEX. 



Pai;e 



Esclii'iclit on tlie nature of Oroa food IK I 



Es(|uimaux ■\vlialing-Loat, tlesciiption of , . . . 31 



Finback Whale 34-3G 



Northern 30 



Fnr Seals 111-1G3 



Glossan' of Words and Phrases used liy 



^yhalemen 309 



Grodman, notice of Narwlial 107 



Grampus, Bottlenosed, description of 101 



oil product of 104 



Panama, description of 104 



Paget Sound, description of 105 



San Diego Bay, description of 105 



Squareheaded, description of lOG 



Whiteheaded or Mottled, description of.. 103 



Gra_y, notice of Huuiphack "Whale 43 



Greener's Har]^)Oon-guii, how used 27 



Gun, utility of 248 



Herd's Island, liunting Sea Elephant on.l2U-122 



Holboll on rapacity of Orca 92 



Humpliack "Whale 38-48 



Hunting Sea Otter from the shore 172 



Indian mode of hunting Sea Otter 173 



Indians, method of capturing Pur Seal liy. . 154 

 of the North-western Coast, whaling 



among the 29, 30 



Japan Coast, Sperm W^liale, where first dis- 

 covered on tlie 212 



Karaginski Island, whales taken off 59 



Lagoon-whaling, disasters of 2G0 



incidents 2G5 



YOj'age, success of 2G4 



Leopard Seal 1G4-1G7 



Life and characteristics of American whale- 

 men 252 



Lindeman, Dr., notice of early whale-fishery. 189 



List of Stores and Outfits 313 



Macy's notice of the Bcavur'.-i outfit 21G 



Magdalena Bay, whaling in 270 



Marten, Frederic, notice of a whaling -voyage 



in 1071 190 



M'Cullocli on early whaling commerce 187 



Monterey, whaling in the Bay of 44 



Nantucket, early whaling commerce of 208 



whaling, early manner of 20G 



Narwhal 107 



description of 107 



food of 108 



habitat of 107 



Northern Finback Whale 3G 



Eight W' hale grounds 214 



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Oil and Bono, price of, from 1835 to 1872. 242 



Oil, manner of trying-out. . . .^ 238 



taken in California shore -whaling 250 



whale, statistics from 17G2 to 1770 206 



Okhotsk Sea, Bowhead Whales of GO 



first capture of Bowhead Whales in ... . GO 



Orca, or Killer 88 



description of 88 



ferocity of 89 



food of 90 



habitat of 89 



high and low -finned 89 



mating season of 92 



rapacity of 92 



Origin and ancient mode of whale - lishing. . 185 



Otter, Sea 1G8-174 



distribution of 1G9 



food of 1G9 



form of 1G8 



mode of capture 170 



numVier captured 174 



whether numbers decreasing 174 



Pacific, first wdialiug in the 205 



Sperm "Whale, when first captured in.. 209 



Panama Grampus 104 



Parasitical crustaceans 21 



Peru, whaling -voyages to the coast of 210 



Pierce's Bomb -lance Gun, description of... 228 



Pinnipedia 113-181 



food of 113 



introduction to description of 113 



mode of locomotion of 113 



Poole, Captain, measurement of Bowhead 



Whale liy 53 



Porpoise, Bay 95 



description of 95 



hal)its of 97 



measurements of 9G 



Pdght-whale pQl 



description of IQI 



habitat of iQi 



Striped or Common 98 



description of 98 



habitat of gg 



hal)its of 98 



Post-offices, whaleship 253 



Pottfisch ( German for Sperm Whale ) 74 



Puget Sound Grampus 1Q5 



Bight W^hale of the North-western Coast.. CG-69 



Right Whale Porpoise iQl 



Eoteh, William, visit to England and France. 217 



