CONTENTS. V 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE OCEAN AND ITS LIVING WONDEES (continued). 



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The Crustaceans, a Crusty Set Young Crabs and their Peculiarities Shells and no SheUs Powers of Renewal The 

 Biter Bit Cocoa-nut-eating Crabs Do Crabs like Boiling? The Land Crab and his Migrations- Nigger Excite- 

 ment The King Crab The Hut Crab A True Yarn The Hermit or Soldier Crab -Pugnaciousness Crab War 

 and Human War Prolific Crustaceans Raising Lobster-pots Technical Differences How do Lobsters shed 

 their Shells I Fishermen's Ideas Habits of the Lobster Its Fecundity The Supply for Billingsgate The Season 

 " Lobster Frolics " in British North America Eel-grass Cray-fish, Prawns, and Shrimps 150 



CHAPTER XIV. 



OCEAN LIFE THE HAEVEST OF THE SEA. 



Fishes and their Swimming Apparatus The Bladder Scientific Classification Cartilaginous Fish The Torpedo A 

 Living Galvanic Battery The Shark His Love for Man in a Gastronomic Sense Stories of their Prowess- 

 Catching a Shark Their Interference with Whaling The Tiger-Shark African Worship of the Monster 

 The Dog-fish The Sturgeon Enormous Fecundity Caviare The Bony Fishes -The Flying Fish: its Feats; its 

 Enemies Youth of a Salmon The Parr, the Smolt, and the Grilse Flourishes in the Sea The Ponds at Stpr- 

 montfield The Salmon's Enemies The Ettrick Shepherd Canned Salmon, and where it comes from The Fish 

 a drug to N. W. America Canoes impeded by them The Fisheries of the Columbia River The Fishing Season 

 Modes of Catching Salmon The Factories and Processes employed t . . . 159 



CHAPTER XV. 



OCEAN LIFE THE HAEVEST OF THE SEA (concluded). 



The Clupedw The Herring Its Cabalistic Marks A Warning to Royalty The "Great Fishery "Modes of Fishing 

 A Night with the Wick Fishermen Suicidal Fish The Value of Deep-sea Fisheries Report of the Commissioners 

 Fecundity of the Herring No fear of Fish Famine The ShadThe Sprat The Cornish Pilchard Fisheries 

 The " Huer "Raising the "Tuck" A Grand Harvest Gigantic Holibut Newfoundland Cod Fisheries- 

 Brutalities of Tunny Fishing The Mackerel- Its Courage, and Love of Man Garum Sauce The formidable 

 Sword-fish Fishing by Torchlight Sword through a Ship's side General Remarks on Fish Fish Life Con- 

 versation Musical Fish Pleasures and Excitements Do Fish sleep ? 168 



CHAPTER XVI. 



MONSTEES OF THE DEEP. 



Mark Twain on Whales A New Version of an Old Story Whale as Food Whaling to 1670 The Great Mammal's 

 Enemy the " Killer "The Animal's Home The so-called Fisheries The Sperm Whale Spermaceti The Chase 

 The Capture A Mythical Monster The Great Sea Serpent Yarns from Norway An Archdeacon's Testimony 

 Stories from America From Greenland Mahoue Bay A Tropical Sea Serpent What is the Animal ? Seen on a 

 Voyage to India Off the Coast of Africa Other Accounts Professor Owen on the Subject Other Theories . . 179 



CHAPTER XVII. 



BY THE SEA-SHOEE. 



English Appreciation of the Sea-side Its Variety and Interest -Heavy Weather The Green Waves -On the Cliffs The 

 Sea from there Madame de Gasparin's Reveries Description of a Tempest -The Voice of God Calm A Great 

 Medusa off the Coast Night on the Sea Boating Excursion In a Cavern Colonies of Sea-anemones Rock Pools 

 Southey's Description -Treasures for the Aquarium A Rat Story Rapid Influx of Tide and its Dangers- 

 Melancholy Fate of a Family Life under Water 190 



CHAPTER. XVIII. 



BY THE SEA-SHOEE (continued). 



A Submerged Forest Grandeur of Devonshire Cliffs Castellated Walls-A Natural Palace -Collection of Sea-weeds 

 The Title a Miserable Misnomer The Bladder Wrack Practical Uses The Harvest-time for Collectors -The 

 Huge Laminaria Good for Knife-handles Marine Rope The Red-Seeded Group Munchausen's Gin Tree 

 Beaten The Coralline a Vegetable Beautiful Varieties Irish Moss The Green Seeds Hints on Preserving 

 Sea-weeds The Boring Pholas How they Drill Sometimes through each other The Spinous Cockle-The " Red- 

 noses Hundreds of Peasantry Saved from Starvation "Rubbish," and the difficulty of obtaining it Results of a 

 Basketful The Contents of a Shrimper's Net Miniature Fish of the Shore -199 



CHAPTER XIX. 



SKETCHES OF OUE COASTS COENWALL. 



The Land's End Cornwall and her Contributions to the Navy The Great Botallack Mine Curious Sight Out- 

 wardly Plugging Out the Atlantic Ocean The Roar of the Sea Heard Inside In a Storm The Miners 

 Fears The Loggan Stone A Foolish Lieutenant and his Little Joke The Penalty The once-feared Wolf 

 Rock Revolving Lights Are they Advantageous to the Marines-Smuggling in Cornwall A Coastguardsman 

 Smuggler Landing 150 Kegs under the Noses of the Officers A Cornish Fishing-town Looe, the Ancient The 

 Old Bridge Beauty of the Place from a Distance Closer Inspection Picturesque Streets The Inhabitants 

 Looe Island and the Rats A Novel Mode of Extirpation The Poor of Cornwall Better Off than Else where - 

 Mines and Fisheries Working on " Tribute "Profits of the Pilchard Season Cornish Hospitality and Gratitude . 207 



