Sea 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 Stillman, 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