Whale hunting with gun and camera: A naturalist's account of the modern shore-whaling industry, of whales and their habits, and of hunting experiences in various parts of the worldAndrews, Roy Chapman
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Whale hunting with gun and camera: A naturalist's account of the modern shore-whaling industry, of whales and their habits, and of hunting experiences in various parts of the world
Andrews, Roy Chapman
Whales; Whaling
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
Pacific 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
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