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INTRODUCTION
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The development of shore whaling and its progress throughout the world--The floating factory--A modern shore station--The ship, harpoon-gun and apparatus--What shore whaling is doing for science 1
MY FIRST WHALE HUNT
Making ready for the hunt--Three humpbacks sighted--The first kill--Inflating the whale--Cutting in a whale by machinery--Disposition of the parts 22
HOW A HUMPBACK DIVES AND SPOUTS
Diving--How far down whales can go--Spouting--Construction of the blowholes 38
AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE IN ALASKA
A fruitless chase of two humpbacks--Another humpback sighted--It bursts from the water half under the vessel's side 46
THE "VOICE" OF WHALES AND SOME INTERESTING HABITS
The voice--How long whales can remain under water--Where whales sleep--The "double-finned" whale 54
THE PLAYFUL HUMPBACK
The whalebone, or baleen--What whales eat and how--Affection for young--The fighting qualities of humpbacks--Breeding habits--Nursing the baby whale with milk--A story of whale milking 63
JAPANESE SHORE STATIONS
Studying whales in Japan--Japanese shore stations and their method of cutting in--Cutting in at night--Whale meat as a food 77
A JAPANESE WHALE HUNT
Hunting sei whales off the coast of North Japan--The whale runs--Moving pictures--The second whale 91
CHARGED BY A WILD SEI WHALE
The first sight--The shot--The charge--The death flurry--Sharks 107
HABITS OF THE SEI WHALE
A distinct species--Wandering disposition--Migration--Distinguishing characteristics--Food--Speed 122
A LONG BLUE WHALE CHASE
The whale runs--The ship dragged through the water--A broken harpoon line--Caught after a day's chase 129
THE LARGEST ANIMAL THAT EVER LIVED
Weight and size of a blue whale--Why whales grow so large--A new-born baby 25 feet long--The wonderful strength of a blue whale--A remarkable hunt described by J. G. Millais 140
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE WHALE'S LEGS
Watching a whale swim--The flippers and hind-limbs--Ventral folds--Blubber--A blue whale which followed a ship 24 days 148
THE GREYHOUND OF THE SEA
A finback hunt in Alaska--A finback struck by two harpoons--Finished with the lance--A humpback--A finback mother and calf 158
SHIPS ATTACKED BY WHALES
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
HOW KILLERS TEAR OUT A GRAY WHALE'S TONGUE
Stampeding a herd of gray whales--Cleverness in avoiding capture--Migrations 197
SOME HABITS OF THE GRAY WHALE
What gray whales eat--Affection--Diseases--Parasites--Hair 207
THE WOLF OF THE SEA
Captain Scott's experience with killers--Killers in the Antarctic--The swordfish and thresher 215
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
A DEEP-SEA SPERM WHALE HUNT
Old-time whaling--Killing with a hand lance--"Diary of a Whaling Cruise," by Mr. Slocum 238
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
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
HUNTING WHITE WHALES IN THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
Porpoises and dolphins--Hunting white whales in the St. Lawrence River 267
THE BOTTLENOSE PORPOISE IN CAPTIVITY
A bottlenose porpoise fishery at Cape Hatteras--"The Porpoise in Captivity," by Dr. Charles H. Townsend 278
THE BLACKFISH
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