CHAPTER VI 



SUMMER ISLANDS AND A SUMMER SEA 



The Sacramento Shoal. Ingens sequor : the Fauna of the Flotsam : 

 Chameleon Fishes : A Mother Shark and her Young. Station 

 55 : Deep-sea Crustacea. The Western Barrier Reef of the 

 Andamans. The Middle Strait : through Virgin Jungle in a 

 Ship. The East Andaman Archipelago : Land-crabs and 

 Strand-crabs : Shore-going Fishes. Station 56. The Robber- 

 crab of South Sentinel Island : " A very good and restorative 

 Meat." Precocious Orphans : A New-born Family of Turtles. 

 Recrossing the Bay. First Introduction to the Laccadives. 

 Robber-crabs as Fellow-passengers. The End of the Term : 

 Dulce Museum. 



After having sufficiently surveyed the coast and anchor- 

 ages between False Point and Gopalpur, in the course 

 of which undertaking about 15,000 soundings had been 

 made by the ship, and about 30,000 by the launches, 

 the Investigator proceeded south to examine a dangerous 

 shoal lying off the delta of the Godavari River, and 

 named, after a frigate of the United States navy 

 which was wrecked upon it in 1867, the Sacramento " 

 shoal. 



In its low-lying swamps and slimy creeks and 



shallow muddy sea the coast in this neighbourhood 



is a repetition of the Mahanaddi delta, but on an 

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