_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 Calf, 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