ANDOVER:
Gould & Newman, Printers.
CONTENTS.
| [CHAPTER I.] |
| THE DIFFERENT AND MOST REMARKABLE SPECIES OF THE WHALE TRIBE, &c. |
| [CHAPTER II.] |
| FOOD OF WHALES, AND THEIR MANNER OF OBTAINING IT, &c. |
| [CHAPTER III.] |
| THE TAKING OF A WHALE WITH HER YOUNG, &c. |
| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| BOATS—HAND HARPOON—BLUBBER LANCE—GUN HARPOON—ACCIDENTS—DANGERS OF THE NORTHERN FISHERY, &c. |
| [CHAPTER V.] |
| PROCEEDINGS AFTER A WHALE IS KILLED. |
| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF SEALS—THE FISHERY ON THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC, &c. |
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WHALE.
CHAPTER I.
THE DIFFERENT AND MOST REMARKABLE SPECIES OF THE WHALE TRIBE.
“Nature’s strange work, vast Whales of different form,
Toss up the troubled flood, and are themselves a storm.