INDEX
Reading edition
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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