stroke--The skipper distinguishes himself.

CHAPTER XV--WHICH COMES UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR BEING THE LAST I come
to grief--Emulating Jonah--Sharing a flurry--A long spell of
sick-leave--The whale's "sixth sense"--Off to the Kuriles--Prepare for
"bowhead" fishing--The Sea of Okhotsk--Abundant salmon--The "daintiness"
of seamen.

CHAPTER XVI--"BOWHEAD" FISHING Difference between whales--Popular ideas
exploded--The gentle mysticetus--Very tame work--Fond of tongue--Goliath
confides in me--An awful affair--Captain Slocum's death--"Not Amurath an
Amurath succeeds"--I am promoted.

CHAPTER XVII--VISIT TO HONOLULU Towards Honolulu--Missionaries and their
critics--The happy Kanaka--Honolulu--A pleasant holiday.

CHAPTER XVIII--ON THE "LINE" GROUNDS I get my opportunity--A
new harpooner--Feats under the skipper's eye--Two whales on one
line--Compliments Heavy towage--A grand haul.

CHAPTER XIX--EDGING SOUTHWARD Monotony--A school of blackfish--A boat
ripped in half--A multitude of sharks--A curious backbone--Christmas
Day--A novel Christmas dinner--A find of ambergris.

CHAPTER XX--"HUMPBACKING" AT VAU VAU "Gamming" again--a
Whitechapel rover--arrive at Vau Vau--Valuable friends--a Sunday
ashore--"Hollingside"--The natives at church--Full-dress--Very
"mishnally"--Idyllic cruising--Wonderful mother-love--A mighty feast.

CHAPTER XXI--PROGRESS OF THE "HUMPBACK" SEASON A fruitless chase--Placid
times--a stirring adventure--a vast cave--Unforeseen company--A night
of terror--We provide a feast for the sharks--the death of Abner--An
impressive ceremony--an invitation to dinner--Kanaka cookery.

CHAPTER XXII--FAREWELL TO VAU VAU Ignorance of the habits of whales--A
terrific encounter--VAE VICTIS--Rewarding our "flems"--We leave Van
Vau--The Outward bounder--Sailors' "homes"--A night of horror--Sudden
death--Futuna.

CHAPTER XXIII--AT FUTUNA, RECRUITING A fleet of nondescripts--"Tui
Tongoa" otherwise Sam--Eager recruits--Devout Catholics--A visit to
Sunday Island--A Crusoe family--Their eviction--Maori cabbage--Fine
fishing--Away for New Zealand--Sight the "Three Kings"--The Bay of
Islands.

CHAPTER XXIV--THE BAY OF ISLANDS AND NEW ZEALAND COAST Sleepy
hollow--Wood and water--liberty day--A plea for the sailors'
recreation--Our picnic--A a whiff of "May"--A delightful excursion--To
the southward again--Wintry weather--Enter Foveaux Straits.

CHAPTER XXV--ON THE SOLANDER GROUNDS Firstfruits of the Soland