Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition / Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442

by John Murdoch

[341]. Vega, vol. 1, p. 444, Fig. 7.

[342]. T. Simpson’s Narrative, p. 156.

[343]. Voyage, p. 574.

[344]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 109, and Fig. 3, p. 105.

[345]. Geographische Blätter, vol. 5, pt. 1, p. 32. See also Rosse, Arctic Cruise of the Corwin, p. 34.

[346]. I learn from our old interpreter, Capt. E.P. Herendeen, who has spent three years in whaling at Point Barrow since the return of the expedition, that a third float is also used. It is attached by a longer line than the others, and serves as a sort of “telltale,” coming to the surface some time ahead of the whale.

[347]. Op. cit., p. 262.

[348]. Voyage, pp. 295, 574.

[349]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 108.

[350]. Ibid., p. 98.