CONTENTS 



XV 



CHAPTER XIII 

 AT MINNIKOY: MEMORIALS OF A MARITIME MICROCOSM 



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Of the Tree that Pays the Bills and the Rent. Boat-building in all 

 its Branches. The Way Tunnies are Caught. The Live Bait 

 Industry. The Social Unit : Man, Woman, and Child. Primi- 

 tive Civilisation : Appropriate Speculations on the Relativity 

 of Pleasure and Pain. The Mosquito Pest. Leprosy and 

 Sanitary Regulations against it. A glance at the Botany and 

 Zoology of Minnikoy. The way of a Surgeon-fish in the Sea . 193 



CHAPTER XIV 



ZOOLOGICAL GLEANINGS ON THE GODXvARI COAST 



Mortal Illness of Commander Hoskyn. The Scenery of the Goda- 

 vari and Kistna Deltas. Viviparous Sting-rays. The Genealogy 

 of the Bat-ray. Habits of the Red Ocypode Crab : Musical 

 Powers of Ocypode Crabs. The Epic of the Fiddler-crab. 

 More Deep-sea Dredging. L'Envoi .... 206 



Part II. — The Deep-Sea Fauna of the Indian 



Region 



Preliminary Note ..... 225 



CHAPTER XV 



of deep-sea fishes in general, and of those of 



the INDIAN ocean IN PARTICULAR . . 22/ 



