INDEX. 



A. 



Agar-agar, 324, 325 



Alva, uses of, 313 



Amber, description of, 463 

 beads, 467 



dredging and diving for, 468 

 in Burmah, 478 

 large blocks of, 470 

 relative prices of, 473 

 trade, Dantzic the chief seat 



of, 473 



two classes of, 474 

 uses of, 465 



Anchovies, exports from Norway, 21 



Anchovy fishery, 81 

 French, 17 



Artificial pearls, 266 



Abalones, 399 



B. 



Baccalau, another name for klip-fish, 32 

 Bahamas sponge fisheries, 174 



statistics of export, 177 

 Balachong, 264 

 Balolo, 126 

 Basking shark, 229 

 Beadlemer seal, 202 

 Beche-de-mer, 106 

 Beluga, or white whale, 208 

 Benitiers of shells, 293 

 Berried hen, definition of, 94 

 Black coral, 440 



helmet shell, 275 

 Bladder- wrack, 313 

 Bleaching sponges, 177 



Blubber, 202, 205 



Boalee fish, 257 



Boat sponge, 175 



Bombay pearl shells, 377 



Bounty, French, on fisheries, 4 



Brainstone coral, 440 



Brazilian isinglass, 250 



Bull's mouth shell, 273 



Bui tow fishing, definition of, 27 



Burtah, definition of, 243 



Byssus, uses of, 307 



of pearl oyster, 389 



Cameo-cutting, 273 

 Capelin fishery, 127 

 Cape lobster, 101 



Colony, fisheries of, 15 

 Carrageen moss, 318 

 Carry-vray, a kind of boat, 223 

 Cat-fish oil, 216 



Caviare, value of the imports, 21 

 Cephalopods as food, 116 

 Ceylon, imports of fish, 15 



pearl fishery, statistics of, 409, 



410 



Chank shells, 288 

 China fisheries, 16 

 Chinese isinglass, 253 

 Chunam or shell lime, 285 

 Clam shell, 281 

 Clams, varieties of, 146 

 Classing and value of pearls, 425 

 Clovisses, 147 

 Cockle shells, uses of, 299 



