A RACE WITH A WATERSPOUT. 



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Dick, with Tom's discomfiture in mind, 

 poked it cautiously with his foot, and finally 

 picked it up. It looked like a large caterpillar, 

 covered with wrinkles, and armed on the under 

 side with an array of queer, short tentacles. 



Sea-cucumbers (trepang). 



" It is the trepang — a holothurian," said the 

 doctor, in answer to Dick's " What in the world 

 is it ? " — " and a regular article of diet with the 

 Chinese." 



" Hallo, see here ! " cried Harry, as the tre- 

 pang, which he had taken from Dick's unwilling 



