CONTENTS. 



Pace. 



Methods of gathering limus 63 



Native methods of preparing and serving limus for food.. 65 



The most popular varieties of limus 70 



Methods of preserving seaweeds 70 



The limus most abundant and easily gathered 71 



Native methods of cultivating limus 73 



Value and amount of native seaweeds sold in Honolulu 74 



Value of seaweeds imported by Orientals into Hawaii _ 75 



Use of limus for medicine and incantations 76 



Chemical analyses and comparative food values of seaweeds 77 



Amount of gelatin or glue found in Hawaiian algse 79 



Hawaiian limus for making agar-agar for culture media 80 



Further utilization of Hawaiian seaweeds for food, gelatin, farina, glue, and 



mucilage 80 



Methods of preparing jellies, blancmange, soups, etc . - 82 



Comparison of Hawaiian and Japanese species of economic alg£e 82 



Possibility of cultivating native, Japanese, Java, or Ceylon algse in favorable 



localities on the Hawaiian or American coast 84 



General summary of the possibilities of the seaweed industry 85 



List of edible algfe of Hawaiian Islands 86 



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