Part 12

Shark, fearful visit of the, 112.

Shell-shifting process of crabs, 6; its difficulties and discomforts, 7.

Shell, the inhabitants often dispossessed, and occupied by another, 33.

Shore-crab, the, 29.

Shrimp-fisheries for the supply of London and other markets, 81.

Shrimps, historical notices of, 73, et seq.; often confounded with prawns, 73; named the “Sand-raiser,” 74; their cunning, ib.; contrivances for catching them, 74, et seq.; materials and implements for catching them, 79; dress for, ib.; advantage to be taken of low tides, 80; hoop-net used for taking them, ib.; fisheries for, 81; enormous quantities of, consumed in London, 81, 82; the endless variety of, yielded by the Indian and Chinese Seas, 85; and also by lakes, ponds, and streams, 87, 88; the fairy shrimp, 87. (See Prawns.)

Silk-worm gut, 15.

Silk-yielding mussel, 39.

Skeleton of the crab, 5.

Slugs, value of in the Chinese market, 71.

Slug-hunters, 70.

Smelts, capture of, 19.

Soldier crabs, 33.

South Seas, coral-formed islands of the, 51.

Southern Seas, inhabited by legions of crabs, 68, 69.

Spawning season of the land-crabs, 54.

Spider crabs, 32, 33.

Squat lobsters, 99.

Swimming crabs, 29.

Table, selection of a thoroughly good crab for the, 24, 25.

Thelphusa fluviatilis, a genus of crab, 55; religions anciently connected with the, 57.

Traps for catching crabs, 10.

Traveller blocks, use of the, 21.

Trepang of the Southern Seas, 69; process of boiling, 70.

Troughs for hatching crustacea, 93.

Trout-hooks, 18, 19.

Velvet swimming crab, the, 30.

Venus’s flower-basket, of the Philippine Islands, 35, 36; its curious texture, 36.