gnity and value one of the oldest and greatest of all
industries. Not till the waste of waters is tamed as has been the
wilderness of land will their work be done, and the Fisheries Bureau
must ever remain in the forefront of such endeavor. To reveal the
incalculable riches of this vast domain of rivers, lakes, and seas; to
show the devotion of those whose lives are spent amid its elemental
perils and to point out a way where courage, skill, and youth may find a
road to serve America and all the world beside, is the aim and purpose
of

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PAGE
MAROONED BY A WHALE 1

CHAPTER II
THE FIGHT OF THE OLD BULL SEALS 39

CHAPTER III
ATTACKED BY JAPANESE POACHERS 75

CHAPTER IV
CATCHING THE SEA SERPENT 112

CHAPTER V
CLUTCHED BY A HORROR OF THE DEEP 152

CHAPTER VI
DEFEATED BY A SPOTTED MORAY 195

CHAPTER VII
HARPOONING A GIANT SEA VAMPIRE 234

CHAPTER VIII
FINDING A FORTUNE IN A PEARL 278

CHAPTER IX
A TUSSLE WITH THE MONARCH OF THE SEA 314

CHAPTER X
RUN DOWN DURING A SQUALL 359

ILLUSTRATIONS

Stripping Cod at Sea on a Winter Morning _Frontispiece_

Whale Harpoon Gun Loaded } FACING PAGE
Finback Whale Being Struck } 14

Finback Whale Sounding }
Lancing Finback } 28
Pumping Carcass with Air }
Dead Finback Set Adrift }

Spearing Seals at Sea 46

Holluschickie Hauling Up } 64
Old Bull Seals Fighting }

Bull Fur Seal Charging } 78
Snapshotting an Old Beachmaster }

Haul of Herring at Gastineau Channel, Alaska 90

Typical Seal Rookery Half Abandoned 102

Native Salmon Trap } 116
Modern Salmon Trap }

Trout Fry. "Millions of These Hatched Yearly" 128

Hatcheries for Landlocked Salmon 138

Atlantic Salmon Leaping } 146
Pacific Salmon Leaping }

Sea-Serpent Caught by Colin }