Chapter II: Preface: 5

I. INTRODUCTION 9

II. THE NORTHERN QUEST 23

III. WHALING ENTERPRISE 31

IV. FLUCTUATING FORTUNES 41

V. IN THE DAVIS STRAITS 52

VI. THE OLD WHALE-SHIPS 62

VII. “THERE SHE BLOWS!” 72

VIII. WHALERS AND SEALERS 83

IX. ABOARD AN AMERICAN WHALER 99

X. CREWS AND CAPTAINS 115

XI. WHALING ADVENTURES 122

XII. THE PERSONAL ELEMENT 132

XIII. THE WAY THEY HAD IN THE WHALERS 139

XIV. IN THE SOUTHERN SEAS 150

XV. WAR AND THE WHALERS 159

XVI. THE THIRTY-TWO SHIPS 173

XVII. FINDING THE NEW WHALING GROUNDS 181

XVIII. THE SOURCE OF WEALTH 191

XIX. PROBLEMS AND PRACTICE 201

XX. MODERN WHALERS AND THEIR METHODS 215

XXI. THE PRESENT WHALING INDUSTRY 226

XXII. COLONIAL CONTROL 244

WHALERS AND WHALING