Sea of Slaughter (64 page)

Tusket Islands, 27

Ungava District, 60, 139–44, 148

United Nations, 342, 482, 511–12

United States, 192.
See also
New England

buffalo in, 173–77

and fish, 220, 241

and seal hunt, 471, 504, 509, 512

and whales, 279, 332

and white bear, 131–33, 134n

U.S. Biological Survey, 138

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 279, 305

U.S. Fish Commission, 47

U.S. Marine Mammals Commission, 490

U.S. Navy, 229, 331

varying hare, 125, 154, 157, 184

Vega
, 360

Viking
, 360–61

Vikings.
See
Norsemen

Virgin Rock, 26

Wadham Islands, 23

Walker, John, 169–70

Wallace, Dillon, 142–43

walrus, 119, 262, 375–76, 377–407, 409

extermination of, 379, 387, 396, 414

food of, 378–79, 389

hide of, 378–81, 393, 400, 404

ivory of, 388, 400, 404, 406

killing of, 304, 384–86, 397–400

as meat source, 393, 404

as oil source, 35, 256, 380, 392, 400–402, 404–5

rookeries of, 392, 396

water buffalo, 166

water dogs, 187–88

water marten.
See
sea mink (fisher)

Watson, Paul, 497–99, 518

weasel, 125, 150, 162n

Weekend Magazine
, 482–85

Wetmore, Alexander, 85

Weymouth, George, 27, 283

whalebone.
See
baleen

A Whale for the Killing
(Mowat), 325n

Whale Harbour.
See
Buterus

whale oil.
See
train oil

whalers, 128–30, 270–76, 404.
See also
whaling industry

Basque, 258–69, 291, 293

deep-sea, 279, 287

from England, 280, 295–97, 311

from Holland, 285–86, 295–97

from Japan, 275, 279, 332, 342, 363, 519

from Korea, 278, 279

from Norway, 279, 312–22, 324–30, 334, 337–39, 363–65, 368

pirate, 275, 276–77

from Scotland, 302–4, 361–63

whales, 119–20, 259–62, 284, 324–25, 342–43

as animal feed, 338, 354–55, 369–72

as fertilizer, 330, 338

fishing industry and, 222, 342, 350–54, 518

killing of, 265–66, 328–34

as meat source, 363, 364

as oil source, 35, 256, 270, 338, 364

as target practice, 329, 331, 427

whale-watching, 356, 365

whaling industry, 332–33, 340, 519.
See also
whalers

in Canada, 269, 337–43

killer boats in, 313–20, 325–29, 332–33, 337–38, 361–65, 370, 463

in New England, 285–87

shore stations in, 326–27, 330, 334, 353, 363

wastage in, 266, 271, 299, 311, 326–27, 371–72

whimbrel, 76–78

whistling swan, 91

Whitbourne, Richard, 30, 45, 208, 232–33

white bear, 112, 113–35, 191

diet of, 119, 127

killing of, 120–24, 128–33, 304

as nomad, 124–25, 128

White Bear Bay, 115

White Bear River, 121, 226

whitecoats, 439, 508–9.
See also
harp seal

“harvesting” of, 488, 505

killing of, 420–21, 444–49, 476, 508–9

media images of, 471, 473, 492

pelts of, 451, 455–57, 466–69, 478, 481–82, 488, 495

protection of, 477–80

white fox, 126, 189–91

white ibis, 99

white-rumped sandpiper, 86

White Sea, 463, 470

white-sided dolphin, 348

white whale.
See
beluga whale

whooping crane, 100

wildlife management

and ice seals, 449, 481, 486, 499

and lobsters, 252

and seals, 417, 423–24, 426, 431, 449

and whaling, 333, 339, 369–72

and wolves, 197–202

willet, 79

Williams, H.A., 490

Williamsport, 337n, 339

willow ptarmigan, 103

Wilson's snipe, 84

wisent, 166

witch flounder, 215–16

Witless Bay, 54, 58

wolf, 145, 167, 194–202.
See also
coyote

wolf fish, 216

wolverine, 158–60, 181

Wood, William, 162–63, 179, 235, 237, 249

wood buffalo, 167, 170, 174

Wood Buffalo National Park, 101

wood duck, 93

World Bobcat Hunt, 186

World Society for the Protection of Animals, 495

World War I, 329, 461

World War II, 331–32, 362, 461

Wrangell Island, 134, 406

Wright, Bruce S., 181

Wright, Thomas, 146

yellowlegs, 85–86

yellowtail, 216

Yonge, James, 101, 195

Yukon Territory, 179, 201

Zapata Pathfinder
, 241–42

zoos.
See
specimen collectors

Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921. He began writing upon his return from serving in World War II and has since written 44 books, which have sold nearly 25 million copies in more than 60 countries. He spent much of his youth in Saskatoon and has lived in Ontario, Cape Breton and Newfoundland, while travelling frequently to Canada's far north. Throughout, Mowat has remained a determined environmentalist, despairing at the ceaseless work of human cruelty. His ability to capture the tragic comedy of life on earth has made him a national treasure in Canada and a beloved storyteller to readers around the world. He lives in Port Hope, Ontario.

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