Chapter II: Appendix: 312

INDEX 317

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Lancing a Whale _Frontispiece_

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Piping in the Arctic 24

Modern Whale Gun and Harpoon 24

Stern View of the St Ebba 40

The St Ebba in the Fiord of the Vikings 40

Dead Seal on the Floe Edge 48

Mouth of a Finner Whale 72

Leaving our Two Whales at the Station 76

A Finner Whale being cut up 76

Towing a Whale 80

Two Whales being hauled on a Slip 88

Flensing Blubber off a Polar Bear’s Skin 102

Whale Under Side up 102

The St Ebba Motor Whaler in Oban 112

The Arcades at Ponta Delgada 136

Tunny on the Beach at Madeira 136

Killers attacking a Finner Whale 152

Cutting up a Cachalot Whale 156

Sperm Whale sounding 156

Trying to get rid of the Lasso 157

Cutting up Sperm Blubber 158

Hauling Sperm Whale’s Flipper and Blubber on Board 160

A Sleeping Bear and Cubs 168

A Dead Bear 184

Reloading a Gun with a Harpoon 192

Towing a big Bear’s Skin 192

The Last Cartridge 200

Arctic Shark 208

A Modern Steam Whaler 208

Fulmar Petrels 216

Starboard being hauled on Board 216

A Polar Bear 224

The End of the Trail 232

Towing Two Bear Cubs 264

The Captain’s Polar Bear Cub 264

Bears in the Water 272

Our Last Glimpse of the Ice 288

Our Engineer’s Daughter 296

Photo of Starboard 304

Species of Whales 310

MODERN WHALING AND BEAR-HUNTING