Modern Whaling & Bear-Hunting / A record of present-day whaling with up-to-date appliances in many parts of the world, and of bear and seal hunting in the Arctic regions

by W. G. Burn Murdoch

[17] I have learned since that five vessels came to grief in the year 1913. Of one trip (Stefansen’s) only one man has survived.

INDEX

• 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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