- A
- Accounts, difficulties in the, 43
- Aften-mad, 72
- Alexandra Whaling Station, 63, 67
- Allan, Miss Sheila, 108
- Ambergris, 22, 159, 314
- Ammunition, 40
- Anatomy of a whale, 159
- Anchor, accident to our, 46
- Arctic and Antarctic compared, 187, 189
- Arctic Fox, 278
- Arctic grouse, 278
- Ardnamurchan, 107
- Azores, the, 165
- B
- Balæna, the, 51, 104
- Balæna Mysticetus, 21, 312
- Balænoptera Borealis, 69
- Balænoptera musculus, 17
- Balænoptera Sibbaldii, the, 17
- Baleen or whalebone, 313
- Balkan, Mrs, 31
- Balta Sound, 14
- Bear and cubs, 258
- Bear-hunting, accidents in, 225
- Bear yams, 216
- Bearded seal, 269
- Bears, stalking, 193;
- dangers, 194, 196;
- size and weight, 198;
- stalking, 199, 200;
- lassoing, 210, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 224, 227, 241, 247
- Belfast, 116
- Birthday celebration, a, 105
- Blowing up, 87
- Blue seal, 269
- Blue sharks, 162
- Bottle-nose whale, 282
- Bowhead or Right whale, 21
- Bressay Light, 55
- Britannia Club, the, 31
- Bruce, Dr W. S., 179
- Bull-fight on deck, 262
- Bull versus bear, 285
- C
- Cabins, 28
- Cachalot, 18
- Cachés, 215
- Calving bergs, 271
- Caribou and whale, colours of the, 94
- Carros, 166
- Case or forehead, 160
- Casperg, Captain, 89
- Chanteys, 102
- Christiania Fiord, 27
- Clarence Island, 31
- Clothes, darned and patched, 73
- Cod liver oil, 208
- Colla Firth, 18
- Colours in Arctic regions, 192
- Colours of the sea, 77
- Colours of the whale, 93
- Cormorants and gulls, 60
- Cormorants, on cooking, 65
- “Cruise of the Cachalot,” the, 22
- Cubs, lassoing, 264
- Customs officers, 58
- Cutting up a whale, 159
- Cuttlefish and whales, 254
- D
- Dangers of whaling, 89, 260
- De Gisbert, F. A., 180
- Dolphins, 127
- Dreams, 227
- Drimnin, 108
- Dundee whalers, 21
- E
- Embryos of whale, 94
- Engine troubles, 50, 148
- Explosive bombs, 23
- F
- Factories, shore and floating, 313
- Falkland Islands, 24, 314
- Finners, 312
- Flippers of seal, 240
- Fogs, Arctic, 279
- Fonix, the, 180, 181
- Food of the whale, 254
- Football, 219
- Foyn, his wife and a whale, 232;
- diplomatic steward, 233
- Fuel, oil, 28
- Fulmar petrels, 212
- Funchal, 165
- G
- Gear for raising dead whale, 87
- Geraniums, 165
- Gisbert and the bear, 216
- Graham’s Land, 23
- Grampuses, 148
- Greenland, 267
- Greenland whales, 24
- Greenland Right whale fishing, 21, 312
- Guano, 24, 84, 313
- Gun, the harpoon, 29
- Gun and harpoon, old style, 231
- Gun, loading the, 88
- Guns, light versus heavy, 222
- H
- Haldane family, stories of the, 66
- Haldane, R. C., 64
- Haldane, the, 17
- Hamilton, C. A., 180
- Hansen and the bear, 217
- Harp seals, 258, 275
- Harpoons, 29, 312
- Hawsers for big whales, 24
- Head of whale, 90
- Heavy seas, 122
- Henriksen, 18, 19, 29, 32, 119
- Henriksen, Harold, 29
- Herring-hog or springer, 69
- Hospitality, Norwegian, 34
- Hydrangeas, 139
- I
- Ice colours, 201
- Ice floes, 248
- Icebergs, 187
- Ivory gull, 182-212
- J
- Jackaranda, the, 165
- Japanese whaling grounds, 18, 57
- Jensen’s store, 33
- K
- Killer, A, 47
- Knarberg, 39
- L
- Lagopus hemilencurus or Arctic grouse, 278
- Lancing a whale, 93
- Larsen, Captain, 41, 316
- Lasso practice, 250
- Lassoing a bear, 210, 285
- Leigh Smith, 215
- Lerwick, 54, 55
- Lifeboat, an extravagant, 51
- Lighthouses, 106
- Lochend, 18, 65
- M
- Mackerel, killing, 72
- Madeira, flowers, 165;
- tunny-fishing, 166;
- sunrise, 168;
- boats, 169
- Magazine ship, 24
- Magnus Andersen, 60
- Mainmast, our, 41
- Meals on a whaler, 71
- Measurement of bears, 238
- Meat meal, whale, 313
- Mess-room and galley, 28, 49
- Middag-mad, 71
- Mishnish Hotel, the, 113
- “Modern Whales,” 22, 24
- Monaco, Prince of, 94
- Motor versus steam-engine, 106
- Motor whaler, a, 19
- N
- Narwhal-fishing, dangers of, 238
- Narwhals, 204, 228, 229, 234, 237
- Natural colours and surroundings, 200
- New Bedford sailing ships, 21
- Nordcapper, the, 26
- Norse sporting guns, 121
- Norwegian ladies, 30
- Norwegian pilot-boats, 18
- O
- Oban, 110
- Oil and coal, 117
- Oil, value of, 83, 84
- Oil, whale, 24
- “Old man Henriksen,” 43
- Orca gladiator, the, 47
- P
- Partings, 45
- Pet bear, a, 257
- Pilot-fish, 162
- Pine trunk, a drifting, 220
- Phosphorescent sea, a, 124
- Photography, 245
- Physeter Macrocephalus, 69
- Plankton, 253
- Pod or herd, 92
- “Polar Research,” Bruce’s, 192
- Ponta Delgada, arcade, 132;
- boats, 133;
- fish, 135;
- Robert’s café, 136;
- a wreck, 135;
- hydrangeas, 139;
- shops, 140;
- the Atlantico, 140;
- dress, 141;
- whales, 142;
- the sea, 143;
- the Seven Cities, 151
- Port and starboard bears, our, 265
- Protective colouring, 192, 276
- Pussy finger, 209
- R
- Ramna Stacks, the, 100
- Red-tape entanglements, 60
- Registration bothers, 60
- Restrictions, 83
- Richardson’s skua, 212
- Right whale, 21
- Robertson, Captain T., 25
- Romance of the sea, 129
- Rorquals, 19, 312
- Runners, 119
- Ryvingen Light, the, 47
- S
- Saga, Jansen’s, 34
- St Ebba, the, 19, 27, 35, 38, 48, 97
- St Abb’s Whaling Limited, 315
- San Miguel, 130
- Scoresby, 179
- Sea legs, 157
- Sea-sick crew, a, 48
- Seal-hunting, 208
- Sealers, 183
- Seals, Arctic and Antarctic, 188
- Seals, Vitulina, 191;
- Phoca Barbata, 197;
- Cystophora Cristata, 203;
- blue, 269;
- Barbata, 269;
- harp, 275
- Seven Cities, the, 151
- Seychelles, the, 176, 315
- She-cook, our, 206
- Sharks, 159, 207, 208
- Shetlands in pawn, the, 60
- Shoppie, a, 125
- Shore stations, 24
- Sing-song, a, 99
- Sorrensen, the brothers, 31
- South Georgia, 31
- South Shetlands, the, 31
- Spanish National Polar Expedition, 180
- Sperm or Cachalot whale, 22, 312
- Spitzbergen ice, 287
- Sports on the ice, 279
- Spotted mackerel, 169
- Spy, a, 113
- Squalus Borealis, 207
- Stalking and being stalked, 199
- Starboard bear, the, 263
- Strength of the bear, 245
- Sumburgh Head, 55
- Sunday observance, 125
- Sven Foyn’s harpoons, 23, 312
- Svendsen, 180
- T
- Tackle for whaling, 232
- “Tail up,” 88
- Tail of a whale, the, 87
- Tanks, 28
- Teeth of seals, 269
- Tobermory, 108
- Tongue of the whale, 254
- Tonsberg, 19, 21, 27, 30, 33;
- whaling industry, 233
- Torp, Captain, death of, 89
- Trammel net, a, 134
- Trolle, Captain, 179
- Trouble with captive bears, 248
- Tunny, 164, 166
- U
- Ulstermen and Scots, 118
- Union Jack, our, 110
- Urmston, 110
- V
- Viking ship, 21
- Vulpes lagopus, or Arctic fox, 278
- W
- Wading stockings, advantages of, 209
- Weddel Sea, the, 23
- Whale cooker, our, 161
- Whale flesh, 83, 91
- Whale’s food, 101
- Whale gun, the, 69
- Whale lines, 28, 33, 87
- Whale products and their prices, 83
- Whale steak, 72
- Whalebone, 21, 24, 83
- Whales, Balænoptera Sibbaldii, 17;
- Balænoptera musculus, 17;
- Balænoptera Vaga, 69;
- Right whale, 18, 21, 58, 232, 254;
- Cachalot, 18, 21;
- Sperm, 18, 22, 155;
- Finners, 19, 22, 69;
- Balæna mysticetus, 21, 58;
- Biscayensis, 25, 58, 69, 83;
- Orca gladiator, 47;
- blue, 69;
- Seihvale, 69, 83;
- Ziphius novæ Zealandicæ, 144;
- narwhals, 204;
- Hyperoodon diodon, 282
- Whales and cuttle-fish, 158
- Whales, habits of, 156
- Whales, harpooning, 77, 81, 86, 92, 155, 157, 176
- Whales, size of, 84
- Whales and trout, 76
- Whaling, old and modern, 21, 314
- Winch, the, 28
- Wives at sea, 111
- Wounded seals, 260
- Wreck, a, 136
- Y
- Yacht club, Tonsberg, 30
- Yell Sound, 69
- Yule, 108
- Yusako, 32
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