338 The Commercial Products of the Sea. 



hold about a quart each, are tied up at the neck with flax 

 fibre, and resemble in appearance a bottle of caoutchouc. 



The large dried hollow fronds of a gigantic fucus serve 

 as water buckets on the Pacific coasts of South America. 

 Water pitchers used to be made by the aborigines of 

 Tasmania of the broad-leaved kelp. They were often 

 large enough to hold a quart or two of water. These and 

 the shell of a species of Cymba were the. only vessels they 

 had for carrying water. 



