INDEX
- Aate (Calanus finmarchius), 126
- Acinomyx jubatus. See Cheetah
- Admiralty Island, Alaska, 4
- Tyee Company erected station on, 185
- Aikawa, 91, 130, 143, 152, 235, 263
- Airondo Maru, 105, 130
- Akebono, 105
- Alaska, vii, 4, 5, 46, 59, 63, 64, 143, 148, 158, 175, 180, 230, 252
- Alaska Whaling Company, 5
- Albatross, U. S. S., 77, 78
- Aleutian Islands, 5, 230
- Allen, Doctor Glover M., 45
- Allen, Doctor J. A., vii
- Amagansett, 253, 255
- Ambergris, 225, 226, 227
- America, Pacific Coast of, 185, 186
- American Museum Journal, viii
- American Museum of Natural History, vii
- American West Coast whaling industry, vii
- American whaling ships, 189
- Americans, 23
- Andersen, Captain Y. E., vii, 61, 92, 95, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 121
- Andrews, Yvette Borup, vii
- Antarctic circle, 304
- Antarctic Ocean, 124, 184
- Antwerp, 265
- Aosaki (red blubber whale), 214
- Apple Island, 269
- Arctic Ocean, 186, 249, 263
- Arctic Region, 184
- Argentina, 9, 304
- Arytenoid cartilages, 43
- Atlantic finwhalers, 176
- Atlantic Ocean, 183, 184, 304
- Australia, 6, 169, 248, 265
- Baffin Bay, 296
- Balænopterinæ, 183
- Balcom, Captain, 24, 25, 30
- Baleen, 37, 69
- Baleen whales, food of, 67
- Banks Land, 249
- Barclay Sound, 4, 22, 24
- Barnacles, 65, 66, 211, 248
- Barneson, Captain John, viii, 4
- Barrel view from the crow’s nest, 26
- Basques, 245
- Bay City, Washington, 5
- Bay of Biscay, 245, 296
- Bay of Islands, 6
- Beluga or white whale, 54
- Berardius bairdi, 266
- Bering Sea, 204, 220, 249, 301
- Bering Strait, 249
- Bernheimer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L., vii
- Birds, 107, 109, 110
- Black codfish (Polachius virens), 123
- Blackfish, sometimes called pilot whale, 291
- Blahval, Norwegian name for blue whale, 178
- Blanket piece, 82
- Blow, 47
- Blowholes, 43
- Blowing, 43
- Blubber, 35, 74, 149, 151, 152, 153, 208, 213, 214, 240, 261, 277, 302
- Blue whale, 14, 19, 24, 39, 41, 57, 70, 150, 155, 178, 179, 180, 183, 185, 302, 305
- Blue whale, skeleton of, 75, 80, 91, 122, 127, 130
- vigorous attempt to capture, 133
- Boiling vats, 11
- Bomb, 12
- Bomb harpoon, 3
- Bonnaterre, Abbé, 245
- Borneo, vii
- Bottlenose (Hyperoödon rostratum), 57, 72, 154
- Bottlenose porpoise (Tursiops truncatus), 278, 282
- Bowdoin, George S., vii
- Bowhead, 2, 221, 245, 247, 251, 296
- Brazil, 9
- Breach, 63
- Breaching, 64
- Breathing, 42
- Breeding grounds, 202, 203
- Breeding habits of all large whales, 72
- Brett, Captain, 6
- Bryde, John, 5
- Bull, Captain, 300
- Bumpus, Doctor Herman C., vii
- Bunk-houses, 11
- Cabot, 146
- Calanus finmarchius, Aate, 126
- Calf, 69
- Calf, enormous size at birth, 143
- California, 202, 203
- coast of, 204
- California gray whale, 72, 125, 178, 189, 190, 192, 195, 196, 197, 200, 201
- length when born, 73
- California lagoons, 186, 189
- Camera, vii, 27, 30, 96, 97, 104, 113, 130
- important part of, in natural history, 55
- Canadian North Pacific Fisheries, Ltd., 5
- Canting winch, 35
- Cape Beale, 25
- Cape Good Hope, 183
- Cape Hatteras, 239, 278, 280, 282, 290
- Cape Horn, 183
- Cape Ommaney, 5
- Cape St. Mary, 146
- Carcass platforms, 11, 36
- Castberg, Captain, 176
- Cetacea, 124
- Cetaceans, 127, 149, 267
- Cheetah (Acinomyx jubatus), 127
- Chili, 9
- Chinese, 23
- Christiania Bay, 1
- Cinematograph, 100
- Clark, James L., 255
- Communicate, how whales, 60
- Cook Brothers, 6, 89
- Cope, Professor, 189
- Copepod (Penella antarctica), 124
- Coronula, 248
- Coronula diadema, 212
- Coryphæna, 267
- Crew, 14
- Crow’s nest, whales sighted from, 14
- Cryptolepas rhachianectei (shell-like barnacles), 212
- Cutters, 82
- Cutting in, 20, 33, 34
- Japanese method of, 79
- Cutting operations, 37
- Cuttlefish, 226, 230
- Cyamus, 248
- Cyamus scammoni (whale lice), 212
- Daito No. 2, whaleship, 130
- Davis Strait, 245, 263, 296
- Delphinidæ, 267
- Delphinapterus leucas. See White porpoise
- Devilfish, 178, 189, 195, 204
- affection of, 208
- Dinosaurs, 140
- Dolphin, 151, 219, 223, 267
- Dorsal fin, 153
- Double-finned whale, 61, 62
- Dryer, 11
- Durban, 5
- Dutch East Indies, vii, 77
- East Indies, Dutch, vii
- Eclipse, Captain David Gray’s schooner, 258
- Edwards, Captain Josh, 255
- Engine house, 11
- England, 9, 265
- Epiglottis, 44
- Eskimos, 251, 252, 253
- Eubalæna glacialis. See Right whale
- Euphausia inermis, 67, 126, 301
- Fagan, D. W. O., quoted, 8
- Falkland Islands, 9, 123, 230, 304
- Fanshaw, Cape, 47
- Faroe Islands, 9, 263, 291
- Feed, 47
- Feeding, 50
- Feeding operations, 68
- Fertilizer, 36, 37, 88
- Finback, 19, 24, 39, 46, 55, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 70, 91, 122, 127, 129, 143, 158, 160, 164, 166, 169, 172, 173, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 183, 185, 223, 305, 306
- Finland, 296
- Finmark, 3, 122, 263
- accident off coast of, 72
- Finners, 2
- Fins, 148, 149
- Fin whale, 2, 3, 143, 153, 223, 297, 304
- Flensing knives, 81
- Flensing slip, 11, 36
- Flippers, 35, 149
- Floating factories, 9
- Flukes, 148
- Food, 11
- Formosa, 77
- Foyn, Svend, inventor of harpoon-gun, 1, 2, 16
- best years of (1871–1880), 3
- Frederick Sound, 4, 46, 59
- French Antarctic Expedition, 124
- Fukushima, 105
- Fur seal, 204, 208
- Fusan, 191
- Galapagos Islands, 9
- Globicephalus brachypterus, 295
- Globicephalus melas, 291
- Globicephalus scammoni, 295
- Glue, 37
- Gracia, whaling ship sunk by a finner, 176
- Grahame, Captain Charles, 46, 58, 59, 158, 168, 169, 173
- Grampus, 220
- Grampus griseus, 221
- Gray, Captain David, 258, 259, 262
- Gray whale, 198, 199
- Great Britain, 304
- Great Dismal Swamp Canal, 283
- Greenland, 9, 240, 263, 296
- Greenland right whale, 245, 247
- Grind, 291, 292, 294
- Guano, 37
- Guldberg, Dr. G. A., 262
- Gunner, 14, 16
- Hakata, 190
- Hansen, Captain, 109
- Harpoon, 12, 14
- Harpoon-gun, 2, 11, 16, 26
- Hebrides, 9
- Hermitage Bay, Newfoundland, 69, 146
- Herschel Island, 253
- Hibberd, Captain I. N., viii, 4
- Hogei Maru No. 5, 92
- Hudson Bay, 249
- Humpback, 19, 24, 27, 33, 38, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63
- Hurum, Captain, 60, 197, 199
- Huxley, Leonard, 218
- Hyperoödon rostratum. See Bottlenose
- Iceland, 3, 263, 296
- Ikeda, Mr., 79
- Indians, 23
- Indians, Siwash, 186
- Individual variation, 17, 20
- Inland Sea, 79
- Isafjord, 72
- Island Empire, cutting operations at, 37
- Italian hemp, tested for a breaking point of eighteen tons, 14
- Iwashi kujira. See Sardine whale
- Jacobsen, Captain Reidar, 130
- Japan, 5, 14, 37, 57, 61, 64, 79, 123, 152, 189, 220, 230, 235, 249, 253, 263, 266, 302
- Japan Sea, 190
- Japanese Empire, 5, 35, 178, 214
- Jarfjord, 3, 176
- Johanessen, Hans, mate of the Puma, 144
- Johnson, Captain, 197, 200
- Kamaishi, 130
- Kay Verde Islands, 239
- Kerguelen Islands, 9, 142, 304
- Killer whale, 197, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 261, 263, 267, 289, 295
- Kinka-San, 104, 121
- Kirkeö, site of first factory for converting whale flesh into guano, 3
- Kirkwood, ship, 156
- Kishimoto, 79
- Koku kujira or devilfish, 108, 189, 190, 196
- Korea, 57, 178, 189, 190, 191, 202, 206, 208, 210, 220, 221
- coast of, 204
- Koreans, 193, 194, 195
- dress of, 192
- Kronprinz Wilhelm, 39
- Kyuquot, 4, 24, 153
- Labrador, 144, 263, 301
- coast of, 143
- Lagenorhynchus obliquidens. See Porpoise
- Larsen, Captain, 19, 130
- Leopard, African hunting, 127
- Line, harpoon, 14
- Liouville, Doctor, 124
- Lobtail, 38
- Lobtailing, 65
- Lucas, Doctor Frederic A., vii, 75, 142
- Layard’s whale (Mesoplodon layardi), 264
- Machine for drying the flesh, 11
- Magdalena Bay, 209
- Main, Captain Melsom’s ship, 195, 201
- “Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, The,” by J. G. Millais, extracts from, 70, 146, 176, 182
- Manager’s house, 11
- Manatee. See Sea cow
- “Marine Mammalia, The,” by Scammon, 196
- Marsouin blanc, 269
- Mast, 14
- Matsumoto, Mr., 195
- Maury, Lieut., 184, 256
- McGrath, R. T., 298
- McMurdo Strait, 220
- Megapteras, 66
- Melsom, Captain H. G., vii, 60, 70, 146, 195, 199, 201, 208, 263
- blue whale killed by, at Ulsan, Korea, 57
- Mesoplodon densirostris, specimen of, found on New Jersey coast, 265
- Mesoplodon grayi, 264
- Mesoplodon layardi (Layard’s whale), 264
- Metropolitan, viii
- Mexico, Norwegian firm built station on Pacific coast of, 5, 301
- Milk, taste and appearance of, 73, 74, 75
- Milk glands, 74
- Millais, J. G., quoted, 69, 70, 71, 72, 144, 145, 146, 176, 180, 181, 182
- Minerva, whaling steamer, 72
- Montana, 140
- Motion-picture film, 100, 101
- Müller, Mr., 264
- Murderer’s Cove, 4, 46
- Mystacoceti. See Whalebone whales
- Nagasaki, 77
- Nannaimo, Vancouver Island, Pacific Whaling Company erected a station at, 185
- Narwhal, 269, 276
- National Geographic Magazine, viii
- Naturalist, 16, 19, 20, 54
- Ne Taihei, 104
- Nets, for catching whales, 6
- New Bedford, Mass., 1, 2, 16, 239, 278
- New Bedford whalers, 238
- New England states, 1
- Newfoundland, 4, 5, 23, 24, 45, 75, 140, 144, 146, 178, 196, 297, 301
- Newfoundland fishery, 298
- New York, 91, 295
- New York Aquarium, 218, 278
- New York Zoölogical Society, 278, 280
- New Zealand, 6, 89, 140, 265
- Nilsen, Captain, 69, 146
- North Atlantic Ocean, 123, 124, 263, 291, 295
- North Atlantic right whale, 245, 296
- North Cape, 3, 176
- Norway, 1, 3, 5, 9, 24, 126, 147, 258, 304
- Norwegian captains, authentic instances related by, 72
- Norwegian fishermen, relation to whaling, 3
- Norwegian gunner, 14
- Norwegian whalers, 4
- Norwegians, 5, 16, 23, 24, 75, 122, 143, 181, 210, 258
- Nostrils, 44, 55
- Nova Zembla, 263
- Nursing of whales, 74
- Nye, Joseph K., owner of porpoise fishery at New Bedford, Mass., 278
- Odontoceti, 67
- Offices, 11
- Ogiwara, D., viii
- Ohlin, Axel, 259
- Okhotsk Sea, 203, 249
- Olsen, Captain Fred, vii, 105, 129, 130, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 230, 238, 263
- Orca gladiator, 289
- Orca or killer whale, enemy of other whales, 197, 199, 200, 201, 219, 220, 221, 223, 261
- Oriental Whaling Company, Ltd., 78
- Orion, 24, 25, 30, 33, 38
- Osaka, viii, 5, 121
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, viii
- Oshima, 80, 91, 152
- Outing, viii
- Pacific coast of America, 4, 64
- of Mexico, 5
- Pacific Ocean, 124, 142, 183, 184, 202, 263, 264, 295, 301, 304
- Pacific Steam Whaling Company, 252
- Pacific Whaling Company, Victoria, B. C, vii, 4, 5, 22, 185
- Pamlico Sound, 283, 290
- Pan, 14, 27
- Parasite, 66
- discovery of, 124
- “Passing of the Whale,” extract from Zoölogical Society Bulletin, 298–300
- Penella antarctica, parasite, description of scar made by, 124
- Petersen, Captain John, 72
- Photographic negatives, developing of, 54
- Placentia, 145
- Plymouth, ship, 155
- Pod, 17
- Point Barrow, Alaska, 249, 252, 253
- Polachius virens. See Black codfish
- Porpoise fishery, 278
- “Porpoise in Captivity, The,” by Charles H. Townsend, 280
- Porpoise oil, 269
- Porpoise, white, 56, 77
- Porpoises, 151, 267
- Pram, 69, 71, 72
- Pregnant whales, 74
- Pribilof Islands, 208
- Puma, whale steamer, 144, 145
- Quinton, J. H., vii, 23
- Red shrimp, 67, 126
- Rekkusu Maru, 105, 129, 130
- Revenue from shore whaling, 2
- Rex Maru, 200
- Right whale, 2, 143, 145, 184, 253
- Rocovitza, 59
- Rolls, Mr., 23
- Rope, five-inch, 12, 14, 27
- Rope-pan, 26
- Ruck, Sidney C., vii
- Russian industry, 5
- Russian-Japanese War, 5
- St. Lawrence River, 56, 77, 269
- St. Lawrence, whaler, 19, 69, 130
- Saldanha Bay, 6
- San Francisco, 249
- San Hogei, 105, 109
- Sandefjord, 5
- Sardine whale (Iwashi kujira), 91, 94, 123
- Sardines, 110
- Scammon, Charles M., quoted, 66, 154, 196, 203, 204–206, 208, 209, 212, 221
- Scandinavians, 16
- School, 17
- Scientist, 18
- Scotland, 9
- Scott, Captain Robert F., quoted, 215, 217, 218
- Sea cow or manatee, 213
- Sea leopard, 220
- Seals, 213
- Seattle, 249
- Sechart, 4, 22, 24, 33, 73, 74
- cutting operations at, 37
- Sei whale, 91, 104, 105, 120, 125, 127, 185, 305
- Seje, 122
- Sharps, 117, 118, 119, 121
- Shetlands, 9, 146
- Sherwood, George H., vii
- Shimonoseki, viii, 78, 91
- Shiro-nagasu, 130, 178
- Shiro-nagasu kujira, 80
- Shirosaki (white blubber whale), 214
- Shore stations, 9, 20
- Shore whaling, 19
- Shrimps, 68, 69, 301
- Siberia, coast of, 5, 146
- Siwash Indians, 186
- Sleep, where whales, 60
- Slicing machine, 35
- Slip, 20
- Slocum, Victor, quoted, 240–244
- Smithsonian Institution, 219
- Soft palate, 44
- Sorenson, the gunner, 50, 52, 53, 63, 161, 164, 168, 171, 172
- Sorenson, wooden whale ship, sunk by a finback, 175
- Sound produced by blowing, 55
- Sounded, 63
- Sounding, 39
- South Africa, 5, 123
- South America, 9, 249
- South Atlantic grounds, 9
- South Atlantic Ocean, 11, 124, 142, 302, 304
- South Georgia Islands, 9, 142
- South Orkneys, 9, 304
- South Sea Islands, 90
- South Shetland Islands, 123, 304
- Spain, 296
- Spes et Fides, ship, 3
- Sperm whale, 2, 67, 77, 91, 94, 95, 143, 177, 184, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 238, 239, 261, 263, 265
- killed in Japan for the American Museum, 235
- Spermaceti, 225, 261
- Spitzbergen, 9, 263, 296
- Spout, 45, 55, 56
- height and density of the, 44
- Spouting, 43, 50, 55
- number of times of, by humpback, 56
- Squid, 226, 230
- Steam whalers, effect of development of, in capture of finners, 2
- Steller’s sea lions, 219
- Stillman, Doctor J. D. B., quoted, 155, 156, 157
- Stokken, Captain, 181
- Storm Island, 48
- Störthing, prohibited shore whaling in 1903, 4
- Straits of Juan de Fuca, 25
- Street, V. H., vii
- Sub-Antarctic Islands, 9
- Sulphurbottom or blue whale, 155, 157, 178
- Swedish iron, 12
- Swordfish, 222, 223
- Tadoussac, 269, 277
- Takamatsu, Japanese name for killer, 220
- Tasmania, 6
- Teats, 73, 74
- Tees, 22
- Thresher, 220, 222
- Tokyo, 91
- Tokyo Bay, 266
- Tongue, 68
- Tønsberg, 1, 2, 16
- Toothed whales (Odontoceti), 67
- Towing line, 27
- Townsend, Charles H., 218, 279
- Toyo Hogei Kabushiki Kaisha, president and directors of, viii, 5, 78, 90, 190
- Trachea or windpipe, 44
- Trying out vats, 35
- Tursiops truncatus. See Bottlenose porpoise
- Twins, 74
- Tyee, Alaska, 46
- Tyee, Captain Charles Grahame’s ship, 46, 158
- Tyee Company of Alaska, 4, 5, 175, 185
- Ulsan, Korea, 57, 60, 190, 192, 195, 197, 200, 202, 207, 208, 210
- Unimak Pass, 5
- United States National Museum, 75
- United States Whaling Company, 5
- Vadso, 176
- Vancouver, factories of Canadian North Pacific Fisheries, Ltd., at, 5
- Vancouver Island, 4, 19, 22, 46, 130, 185, 220
- Varangerfjord, 3, 176
- Vardö, 3
- Victoria, B. C., 4
- Vocal organs, 55
- Voice, 55
- Wads, 12
- Wainscott, L. I., 256
- Walrus, 213, 221
- Wangamumu, 6
- Weddell seal, 220
- Whale lice, 211, 212, 248
- Whale oil, 151
- Whalebone, 2, 37
- Whalebone plates, bristles on inner side of, 69
- Whalebone whales (Mystacoceti), 67
- Whales, breeding habits of, 72
- carcass used for human consumption, 5
- depth of diving, 41
- description of cutting, 240
- double-finned, 61, 62
- early extinction of, 21
- food of, 67
- inflating, 32, 33
- influence of, upon fishing, 4
- investigations, distribution, life history, relationship of, 20
- manner of swimming, 148
- meat of, 77
- methods of studying, 19
- milking, 75
- movements of, 67
- nets for catching, 6
- number taken during a season, 19
- Whales, scientific study of, 17
- Whales, Asiatic, viii
- Whaling, beginning of, 245
- Whaling companies, assistance of, to scientists, 20
- Whaling grounds, greatest of modern times, 9
- Whaling ships, 11
- Whaling stations, 11
- Wharf, 11
- White porpoise (Delphinapterus leucas), 56, 269
- White whale or beluga, 154
- Wilson, Doctor, quoted, 220
- Winch, 14, 32, 34, 134
- Windpipe or trachea, 44
- World’s Work, viii
- Wrangle Island, 249
- Wyoming, 140
- Ziphiidæ, 264
- Ziphioids, 258, 265