CONTENTS. 17 



Pagb 

 sliells — Sea sliells perform an important part in the economy of 



nature — Use of sliells multifarious — Trumpet shell — Shell fish 



as an article of food — Giant clams — Porcelain shells — Roaring 



buckie harp shells — Fountain shells — Razor shells — Trough 



shells 309—322 



CHAPTER XVIIL 



feEA BIRDS. 



Number and variety of marine birds — Roosting places — The gull 

 family — General description — Some gulls expert in breaking the 

 shells of mollusks — Tricks played by seamen on gulls — The 

 skuas — The petrels — Among the most interesting of marine 

 birds — The storm petrel — Sea swallows — The albatros — A great 

 fish eater — The divers — Expert fishers — The guillemots — The 

 great ausk — Puffing or sea parrot — The penguins — Darwin's de- 

 scription of the "jackass" penguin — The cormorant — Trained 

 to fish by some nations — The pelican- -Peculiar pouch for storing 

 fish — The ganet — Assemble at breeding times in myriads on the 

 bass rock — The hooper or wild swan — The great sea eagles — The 

 osprey and its fishing habits — The tropic sea birds — The frigate 

 bird — Its tyrannical treatment of the booby 323 — 351 



CHAPTER XIX. 



SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH THE OCEAN. 



Seamen naturally superstitious — Incidents regarded as prodigies — 

 Phantom ship — Power of raising tempests at sea by witchcraft — 

 Incident to James VI. of Scotland — Wind pillars — Double sight 

 — Apparitions at sea — Rats leaving a ship — Omens for good or 

 evil — Crows as guides to mariners — The ancient mariner — Carry- 

 ing dead bodies in ships — Good luck — Bad luck — Curious re- 

 flections — Sea divinities of the ancient times 352 — 359 



CHAPTER XX. • 



MARINE PRODIGIES. 



The Krasken a wonderful sea monster — Able to pull men-of-war to 

 the bottom of the ocean — The sea serpent — Marvelous stories re- 



