INDEX. 



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, Uantzic the chief seat 



of, 473 



two classes of, 474 

 uses of, 465 



Anchovies, exports from Nonvay, 21 



Anchovy fishery, 8 1 

 French, 17 



Artificial pearls, 266 



Abalones, 399 



B. 



Baccalau,anothemameforklip-fish,32 

 Bahamas sponge fisheries, 174 



statistics of export, 177 

 Balachong, 264 

 Balolo, 126 

 Backing shark, 229 

 Beadlemer seal, 202 

 Beche-de-mer, 106 

 Beluga, or white whale, 208 

 Beniticrs 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, 1 75 

 Bombay pearl shells, 377 

 Bounty, French, on fisheries, 4 

 Brainstone coral, 440 

 Brazilian isinglass, 250 

 Bull's mouth shell, 273 

 Bultow fishing, definition of, 27 

 Burtah, definition of, 243 

 Byssus, uses of, 307 



of pearl oyster, 389 



C. 



Cameo-cutting, 273 

 Capelin fishery, 127 

 Cape lobster, 101 



Colony, fisheries of, 15 

 Carrageen moss, 318 

 Carry-way, a kind of boat, 223 

 Cat-fish oil, 216 



Caviare, value of the imports, 21 

 Cephalopods as food, 1 16 

 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 



