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]
- skeletons of all the large Japanese cetaceans in, [viii]
- trustees of, [viii], [230], [235], [255], [266]
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]
- objects made of, [90], [158]
- value of, [247], [248], [253]
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]
- adaptation to aquatic life, [44], [153]
- elevation of, [45]
- position of, [44], [153]
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]
- capture and delivery to station, [139], [140], [142], [143]
- Millais’ interesting account of hunt of, [144]–147
- photographing of and shooting at, [132]
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]
- habits and characteristics of, [262]
- method of hunting, [258]–261
- origin of name, [258]
- where found, [263], [264]
Bottlenose porpoise (Tursiops truncatus), [278], [282]
Bowdoin, George S., [vii]
Bowhead, [2], [221], [245], [247], [251], [296]
- food of, [248]
- grounds of, [249]
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]
- color changes when dead, [17]
- hair on, [212], [213], [214]
- individual variation of, [17], [20]
- physiology of, [59]
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]
- Millais’ description of killing, [181], [182]
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]
- mating and pairing of, [73]
- small fish eaten by, [69]
- value of baleen of, [37]
Flensing knives, [81]
Flensing slip, [11], [36]
Flippers, [35], [149]
Floating factories, [9]
- development of, [301], [302]
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]
- diseases of, [210], [212], [214], [305]
- food of, [207]
- migration of, [202]
- period of gestation of, [204]
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]
- charge of, [12]
- weight of, [12]
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]
- amorous antics in mating season, [66]
- baby, [73]
- caught in wire nets, [6]
- danger from lancing, [70]
- dive of, [29]
- great affection of, [69], [71], [72]
- habits of, [59]
- period of gestation, [73], [87], [130], [148], [149], [152], [158], [167], [168], [185], [232], [305]
- photograph of, breaching, [64]
- playful disposition of, [66]
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]
- use of whales for food in, [304], [305]
- whaling banks of, [77]
Japan Sea, [190]
Japanese Empire, [5], [35], [178], [214]
- coast of, [5], [57], [58]
- stations in, [79]
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]
- food of, [219]
- strength and ferocity of, witnessed by Captain Scott, [215]
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]
- extract from “The Passing of the Whale,” by, [298]–300
- weighing and measuring of blue whale by, [140]
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]
- hide of, [154]
- school of, [58], [137]
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]
- food of, [248]
- origin of name, [245]
- skeleton and baleen of, in American Museum, [255]
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]
- food of, [126]
- habits of, [123]
- migrations of, [124]
- origin of name, [122]
- parasite on body of, [124]
- speed of, [97]
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]
- development of, [1]
- operations of Japanese and Russians in, [5]
- plea for proper legislation of, [305], [306]
- revenue from, [2]
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]
- as whaling center, [302], [304]
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]
- experience of, on Pribilof Islands, [218], [219]
- quoted, [280]–290
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]
- growth, composition, shape, bristles, use, development of, [67], [143], [248]
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]
  - canning of, [89]
  - chemical analysis of, [88]
  - for eating purposes, [86]
  - price of, [87]
  - taste of, [88]
- methods of studying, [19]
- milking, [75]
- movements of, [67]
- nets for catching, [6]
- number taken during a season, [19]
Whales, scientific study of, [17]
- spouting of, [43]
- time below the surface, [56]
- with two dorsal fins, [61]
- young of, number of, at a birth, [74]
  - nursing of, [74]
Whales, Asiatic, [viii]
Whaling, beginning of, [245]
- great part persistency plays in, [136]
- new era of, [16]
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]

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
Re-indexed footnotes using numbers.