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V. THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



Discovery of the Pacific — Voyage of Magellan — Sea-weeds — 

 Elephant-seal — Fur-seal — Sea-lions — Sea-bear — Penguins — Sperm 

 Whale^ — Adventurous Character of the Fishery — Destruction of a Ship 

 by a Whale — Appearance and Habits — Regularity of its Motions — Its 

 Enemies — Breaching — Its Food — Description of the Fishery — Narra- 

 tive of a Chase — Strange Sail — Speaking at Sea — Amusing Mistake . 225 



VI. THE PACIFIC OCEAN, continued. 



Islands of the South Sea — Coral Islands — Reef — Lagoon — Forma- 

 tion of Coral — Animals — Structure of a Coral Island — Various Species 

 of Corals — Rate of Activity — Lines from Montgomery — Crystal Island 

 — Caverns — Interesting Legend — Volcanic Island — Natural and 

 Moral Beauty — Advanced Civilization — Reef — Islands at Openings 

 — Beauty of Lagoon — Moonlight — Night at Sea — Natives swimming 

 in the Surf — Sharks — Canoes — Origin of the Population — Various 

 modes of Fishing — Pens — Rafts — Poison — Nets — Spear — Fishing by 

 Torchlight — Hooks — Angling — Albacore — Sword-fish — Predaceous 

 Habits of Fishes — Crabs — Animal-flowers — Cuttle — Oceanic Birds — 

 Tropic-bird — Albatross — Booby — Frigate-bird — Immense Assem- 

 blage of Birds . . . . . . . " . 265 



VII. THE INDIAN OCEAN. 



Indian Archipelago — Proa of the Ladrones — Malay Pirates — 

 Number and Beauty of small Islands — Houses over the Sea — Chines© 

 Junks — Typhoon — Waterspouts — A Chinese "Wreck — Esculent Birds'- 

 nests — Their Nature — Modes of obtaining them — Value — Use — Sea- 

 weeds — Trepang — Change of the Monsoon — Coming in of the Bore — 

 Beauty and singularity of Fishes — Curious Mode of Fishing — Violet- 

 snail — Portuguese Man-of-war — Sallee-man — Glass-shells — Clamp — 

 Pearls — Fishery — Floating- weeds — Pelicans — Luminosity of the Sea 

 — Various kinds of Luminous Animals — Conclusion . . . 328 



