Sl'lTZlJEKGEN AND (i RKKiN'LAiM). 91 



CHAP. V. 



Of the Crustaceous Fish tluit I Observed. 



I FOUND two sorts of them, viz., craicjish and starfish; of 

 the craicfsh I saw four sorts, the sea-spider, as the French- 

 men call them ; the red praion ; the small prawn, or the little 

 small shrimp ; and the xchale's louse. 



The starjish I put to them also, because they have their 

 arms or legs, wherewith they move themselves, and are in- 

 crustated with shells. 



1. Of the Sea Crawfish without a Tail, or Sea Spiders.^ 



This sort of craicjish has no tail, but six feet and two 

 claws : they are else very like lobsters in the shape of their 

 body. They are of a dark brownish colour, somewhat prickly 

 on their backs, and hairy all over their body. I have seen 

 many of this kind with six feet and two claws in my voyage 

 to Spain, whereof I have also made a draught in my voyage 

 into Spain (which I shall, God willing, communicate to the 

 curious), but they differ from these of Sjiitzhergen in their 

 bigness and head ; this of Spitzbergen hath a head like a 

 lobster, but the male of them that I saw in my voyage to 

 Spain, made, with its head and tail, just the shape of a lute. 

 I did not eat any of the Spitzbergen sea crawfish, neither 

 have I drawn them at Spitzbergen for want of time, for I 

 thought to have brought them along with me, but they were 

 carried away by the rats. I got them in English Haven on 

 the 19th oi June ; I afterwards saw them in the North Sea, 

 not far from England, where we bought from the Hilgeland 

 fishermen a great tarbut, in whose stomach we found a sea 

 crawfish two spans long, Avhen its feet were spread out. 

 ^ This may he Lithodes arctica. 



