484 



Index. 



Sturgeon, 240, 253 

 Suleah fish, 243 

 Sulu pearl shells, 377 

 Swordfish, 118 



T. 



Tangle, 336 



Tiger cowry, 279 



Tinned lobsters, 96 



Tongues, a name for soles, 1 29 



Tortoiseshell boats, 360 

 combs, 358 

 British imports, 363 

 description of, 351 

 imports into France, 364 

 manufacture, 354 

 value of the imports, 21 



Train oil and blubber, 205 



exported from Norway, 2i 



Trawlers, number of, in the British 

 seas, 8 



Tree oysters, 421 



Trepang fishery, loj 



mode of curing, 112 

 varieties of, 107, 108, 114 



Trumpet shells, 286, 299 



Turbo shells, 300 



Turk's cap shell, 294, 400 



Tunny fishery, 83 

 oil, 85, 218 

 Turbot, 130 

 Turtle, edible or green, 364 



Turtle eggs, 368 



modes of cooking, 366 

 Tuticorin pearl fishery, 413 

 Tyrian purple, 304 



V. 



Velvet sponge, 175 

 Venetian shells, 277 

 Vesiga, definition of, 242 

 Vog, definition of, 36 



W. 



Walrus, 204 



Wampum, 281 



Whalebone or fins, imports of, 206 



Whale fishery, 204 



or train oil, value of imports, 

 21 

 Western Australian pearl fisheries, 427 

 West Indian isinglass, 251 

 Wool sponge, 159 



