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

324Barneson, 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

325Calf, 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

326Engine 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

327Guldberg, 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

328Kinka-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

329Motion-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

330Pacific 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

331Sea 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

332Stillman, 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

333Whalebone 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.