In the Heart of the Sea

and officers of
    damage to
    description of
    De Witt’s desertion of
    mail and
    morale on
    Nantucket Island and
    owners of
    provisions on
    sperm whale attack on
    storms weathered by
    tortoises on
    in whale hunting
    written accounts of
    Essex (frigate)
    Essex whaleboats
    cannibalism on
    damage to
    desertions from
    discomforts on
    drinking water on
    on Henderson Island
    morale on
    navigation of
    prayer on
    provisions on
    separation of
    storms weathered by
    strategies on
    in whale hunting
    see also Chase’s whaleboat; Hendricks’s whaleboat; Joy’s whaleboat; Pollard’s whaleboat; whaleboats
    Ewer, Peter Folger
    exposure to elements
    finback whale
    first mates
    see also Chase, Owen

    Flatt, David
    Florida
    flying fish
    Folger, Gideon
    Folger, Mayhew
    Folger, Peleg
    Folger, Walter

    Galapagos Islands
    Gardner, Eben
    Gardner, Ferdinand
    Gardner, George Washington
    General Jackson
    George
    Géricault, Théodore
    Gideon Folger and Sons
    Globe
    Gold Rush (1848)
    gooseneck barnacles
    green hands
    Gulf Stream
    weather in

    hardtack
    harpooning
    Harrison, David
    Hawaiian Islands
    Heffernan, Thomas
    Henderson Island
    Hendricks, Obed
    Hendricks’s whaleboat:
    cannibalism on
    crew of
    deaths on
    separated from other whaleboats
    see also Essex whaleboats
    Hero
    Hill, Henry
    History of Nantucket (Macy)
    Hood Island
    hunger
    see also starvation
    Huron
    Hussey, Captain
    Hussey, Shubael
    hypernatremia
    hypothermia

    Independence
    Indian

    James, William
    Japan Ground
    Jonah Man, The (Carlisle)
    Joy, Matthew
    illness and death of
    Pollard influenced by
    as second mate
    in sperm whale attack
    see also Joy’s whaleboat
    Joy, Nancy Slade, see Chase, Nancy Slade Joy
    Joy, Reuben
    Joy’s whaleboat
    crew of
    Hendricks’s taking command of; see also Hendricks’s whaleboat
    killer whale attack and
    provisions on
    separated from other whaleboats
    in whale hunting
    see also Essex whaleboats
    Juan Fernandez Island

    Keys, Ancel
    killer whales

    Langsdorff, Georg von
    Lawrence, Benjamin
    cannibalism of
    homecoming of
    on Hood Island
    later career of
    twine of
    whaleboat repair and
    Lawrence, George
    Lawrence, Judith Coffin
    Leach, John
    Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur)
    Lewis, Leon, xiv
    Lion
    log line
    longitudinal reckoning
    Lucy Adams
    lunar observation
    Lydia

    McGarvey, Stephen
    McGee, W.J.
    McGuffey, William H.
    Macy, Obed
    Macy, Paul
    Macy, William H.
    magnesium deficiency
    Maio
    man-of-war hawks
    Marine Insurance Company
    Marquesas
    Martha
    Masafuera
    Maury, Matthew Fontaine
    Medusa
    Melville, Herman
    Pollard’s encounter with
    Midas
    midships oarsman
    Minnesota, University of
    Moby-Dick (Melville)
    Montevideo
    Morcom, Rich
    Mott, Lucretia Coffin

    Nantucket
    Nantucket Historical Association
    Nantucket Inquirer
    Nantucket Island
    African Americans and
    clannishness on
    description of
    Essex disaster and
    fire on
    life on
    religion on
    sperm whales and
    whale hunting and
    Nantucket Marine Mammal Stranding Team
    Nantucket Whaling Museum
    Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Poe)
    Narrative of the Wreck of the Whale- ship Essex (Chase)
    Native Americans
    see also Wampanoag
    navigation
    of Essex whaleboats
    New American Practical Navigator (Bowditch)
    New Bedford
    New Bedford Mercury
    New England Aquarium
    Nickerson, Margaret
    Nickerson, Rebecca Gibson
    Nickerson, Thomas
    Nickerson, Thomas, Jr.
    background of
    cannibalism of
    on Charles Island
    Chase and
    dehydration and starvation of
    on Essex
    Henderson Island and
    homecoming of
    later career of
    morale of
    Pacific storms and
    Pollard and
    rescue of
    in sperm whale attack
    tortoises and
    whaleboat experience of
    whale hunting by
    written account of Essex disaster by
    Nordhoff, Charles
    North American Review
    Nottingham Galley
    Nukahivah

    Oahu
    Oak
    Offshore Ground
    Olmsted, Francis
    orcas (killer whales)
    Osborn, Leonard

    Pacific Ocean
    Paddack, Aaron
    Paddock, Ichabod
    Pearl
    Pease, John
    Peggy
    penguins
    Peru
    Peters, Dimon
    Peterson, Richard
    bread stolen by
    death of
    prayers led by
    Philbrick, Charles
    Philbrick, Thomas, xiv
    Phinney, Joseph Warren
    Pitcairn
    Pocahontas
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Pollard, George, Jr.
    appointed captain of Two Brothers
    cannibalism of
    Cape Horn and
    career of, after Two Brothers
    Chase’s influence on
    Coffin’s relationship with
    homecoming of
    hunting party of
    leadership of
    on Maio
    Melville’s encounter with
    Nantucket Island leave-taking and
    navigation errors by
    physical description of
    psychology of
    Russell and
    in sperm whale