VI 



Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 



[Oct. 



Quantities of Sharks' Fins Imported into and Exported 

 from Prince of Wales Island, from 1832 to 1842. 





Import 



• 





Export. 







Quantity 

 in Pikuls. 



Value in Sp. 

 Dollars. 





Quantity 

 in Pikuls. 



Value in Sp. 

 Dollars. 



1832-33 







1832-33 



40 



500 



1833-34 



91 



977 



1833-34 



308 



4,927 



1834-35 



79 



893 



1834-35 



408 



4,770 



1835-36 



27 



350 



1835-36 



267 



3,817 



1836-37 



129 



1,287 



1836-37 



329 



5,699 



1837-38 



60 



966 



1837-38 



195 



4,432 



1838-39 



195 



3,001 



1838-39 



426 



5,451 



1839-40 



76 



1,703 



1839-40 



319 



5,970 



1840-41 



172 



2,582 



1840-41 



360 



4,689 



1841-42 



521 



7,457 



1841-42 



525 



7,781 



Total, 



1,350 



19,216 



Total, 



3,177 



48,036 



8. Balachan, is a condiment prepared from small fishes of all 

 descriptions and shell-fish. The ingredients are placed in a pit to un- 

 dergo fermentation, and afterwards dried, pounded, and preserved with 

 spices. With the Malays, Siamese, Burmese and Cochin-Chinese, 

 Balachan has become a necessary of life, as it serves to season the 

 daily food of these nations. 



9. Fish-manure. The smallest fishes, and all offal are employed 

 in the spice plantations by the Chinese gardeners and agriculturists of 

 Pinang, who consider the fluid in which fishes have been salted a very 

 useful manure in cocoanut plantations. 



10. In addition to the preceding, there are two animal productions 

 of the eastern seas, which also are considered fishes by the Chinese. 

 They are the dried Holothurioidce, called Tripang swala or Beche de 



