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Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHORE WHALING

CHAPTER I MY FIRST WHALE HUNT

CHAPTER II HOW A HUMPBACK DIVES AND SPOUTS

CHAPTER III AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE IN ALASKA

CHAPTER IV THE “VOICE” OF WHALES AND SOME INTERESTING HABITS

CHAPTER V THE PLAYFUL HUMPBACK

CHAPTER VI JAPANESE SHORE STATIONS

CHAPTER VII A JAPANESE WHALE HUNT

CHAPTER VIII CHARGED BY A WILD SEI WHALE

CHAPTER IX HABITS OF THE SEI WHALE

CHAPTER X A LONG BLUE WHALE CHASE

CHAPTER XI THE LARGEST ANIMAL THAT EVER LIVED

CHAPTER XII WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE WHALE’S LEGS

CHAPTER XIII THE GREYHOUND OF THE SEA

CHAPTER XIV SHIPS ATTACKED BY WHALES

CHAPTER XV REDISCOVERING A SUPPOSEDLY EXTINCT WHALE

CHAPTER XVI HOW KILLERS TEAR OUT A GRAY WHALE’S TONGUE

CHAPTER XVII SOME HABITS OF THE GRAY WHALE

CHAPTER XVIII THE WOLF OF THE SEA

CHAPTER XIX A STRANGE GIANT OF THE OCEAN

CHAPTER XX A DEEP-SEA SPERM WHALE HUNT

CHAPTER XXI THE RIGHT WHALE AND BOWHEAD

CHAPTER XXII THE BOTTLENOSE WHALE AND HOW IT IS HUNTED

CHAPTER XXIII HUNTING WHITE WHALES IN THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER

CHAPTER XXIV THE BOTTLENOSE PORPOISE IN CAPTIVITY

CHAPTER XXV THE BLACKFISH

CHAPTER XXVI THE PASSING OF THE WHALE

APPENDIX

I. CLASSIFICATION OF THE CETACEA

II. DIAGNOSES OF THE WHALES DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK

BLUE WHALE, SULPHURBOTTOM Balænoptera musculus (Linn.)

FINBACK, RAZORBACK Balænoptera physalus (Linn.)

SEI WHALE, RUDOLPHI’S RORQUAL Balænoptera borealis (Lesson)

HUMPBACK Megaptera nodosa (Bonn.)

NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE, BLACK WHALE Eubalæna glacialis (Bonn.)

BOWHEAD, GREENLAND RIGHT WHALE Balæna mysticetus (Linn.)

CALIFORNIA GRAY WHALE, DEVILFISH Rhachianectes glaucus (Cope)

SPERM WHALE, CACHALOT Physeter macrocephalus (Linn.)

KILLER WHALE, ORCA, GRAMPUS, THRESHER Orca orca (Linn.)

WHITE WHALE, BELUGA, MARSOUIN BLANC Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas)

BLACKFISH, PILOT WHALE, CA’ING OR GRINDHVAL Globicephalus melas (Traill)

BOTTLENOSE PORPOISE Tursiops truncatus (Mont.)

III. THE SKELETON OF THE CETACEA

IV. ADAPTATION AS SHOWN BY THE CETACEA