A finback hunt in Alaska—A finback struck by two harpoons—Finished with the lance—A humpback—A finback mother and calf 158 CHAPTER XIV SHIPS ATTACKED BY WHALES Sinking the _Sorenson_—Whales attacking ships—Habits of blue and finback whales—Killing a finback off the Shetland coast—Wanderings of whales 175 CHAPTER XV REDISCOVERING A SUPPOSEDLY EXTINCT WHALE Whales on the Pacific Coast—The devilfish of Korea—Living in Korea—Theft of bones—My first gray whale 186 CHAPTER XVI HOW KILLERS TEAR OUT A GRAY WHALE’S TONGUE Stampeding a herd of gray whales—Cleverness in avoiding capture—Migrations 197 CHAPTER XVII SOME HABITS OF THE GRAY WHALE What gray whales eat—Affection—Diseases—Parasites—Hair 207 CHAPTER XVIII THE WOLF OF THE SEA Captain Scott’s experience with killers—Killers in the Antarctic—The swordfish and thresher 215 CHAPTER XIX A STRANGE GIANT OF THE OCEAN The giant sperm whale—Spermaceti—Ambergris—Teeth—Scrimshawing—Food—Size—Blowing and Diving—Sperms off the Japan coast—Ferocity—Length of life in whales 224 CHAPTER XX A DEEP-SEA SPERM WHALE HUNT Old-time whaling—Killing with a hand lance—“Diary of a Whaling Cruise,” by Mr. Slocum 238 CHAPTER XXI THE RIGHT WHALE AND BOWHEAD The beginning of whaling—The right whale and bowhead—Valuable whalebone—Right whales killed with the harpoon-gun—How bowheads are hunted—The Eskimo whalers—A right whale captured at Amagansett, Long Island 245 CHAPTER XXII THE BOTTLENOSE WHALE AND HOW IT IS HUNTED Hunting the bottlenose whale—Habits of the bottlenose—Peculiarities of the ziphioid whales—Teeth of Layard’s and Gray’s whales—Skulls—Existing ziphioid whales the last survivors of an ancient race 258 CHAPTER XXIII HUNTING WHITE WHALES IN THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER Porpoises and dolphins—Hunting white whales in the St. Lawrence River 267 CHAPTER XXIV THE BOTTLENOSE PORPOISE IN CAPTIVITY