Part 8

Coral reefs, marine creatures of the, 30.

Cork-float, use of the, 19.

Crabbe, the poet, lines from, 31.

Crabbers, the professional ones, 9, 11.

Crab-fishing, account of, 10, 11; materials to be provided, 11; by juveniles, 28; to be pursued at very low tides, 79.

Crab-hook, use of the, 22.

Crab-hunting expedition, 49.

Crab-pots, or baskets for capturing crabs, 9, 11; of great utility, 14.

Crab-sausages, the Roman method of preparing, 3.

Crab whelks, 34.

Crabs, historical notices of, 1, et seq.; the “Cancer” of the ancients, 2; the baby crabs, or Zoëa, 4: internal economy as curious as his external skeleton, 5; his liver an odd organ, ib.; his lungs or gills, 6; the shell-shifting process of, ib.; his unenviable position between the loss of his old shell and the secret of a new one, 7; the large edible crab of the shops, the most important member of the crab family, 8; the various methods by which crabs can be taken, 9, 10; the hooks and implements in general use, 11, et seq.; the use of the gut-knot, 17; a great number taken with the crab-hook, 22; methods of using it, 23; tenacity of their grip, ib.; how the haunts of the crab are discovered, 24; their pugnacity, ib.; judgment required to select a good crab for table, 24, 25; how to discover the sexes, 25; proper mode of boiling, ib.; the change of colour during the process, 26, et seq.; crab-fishing of juveniles, 28; the harbour or shore crab, 29; the swimming crab, ib.; the velvet swimming crab, 30; spider crabs, 32, 33; hermit crabs, 33; crab-whelks, 34; pea-crabs, 34, 41; contained in the Philippine Island sponge, 35, 37; small crabs in the shells of the great silk-yielding mussel, 39; the Pinna muricata, 40-42; the burrowing crabs, 45; the great cocoa-nut eating crab, ib.; excellent oil produced by, 49; crab-hunting expeditions, 48, 50; the land crab, 52; termination of the spawning season, 54; their cunning and activity, 54, 55; their quaint proceedings among the Mahratta jungles, 55; the genus Thelphusa and its habits, 55, 56; the sand crab, 57; the Gelasimus, ib.; the king crab, 58; humorous anecdote of, 60; crab-life on the coasts of Japan, 61, 62; on the coasts of Tasmania, 62; on the Chilian coasts, 63; the Chinese crab, ib.; the various and general species, 63, et seq.; the goat crab, 64; the Parthenope horrida, ib.; the Dromia lator, 64, 65; the Echinocerus cibarius, 65; the Pilumnus nespertilis, 66; the Planes minutus, 67, 68; the floating crabs, 68; the Southern Seas inhabited by legions of crabs, 68, 69; modes of catching them, 70, 71.

Crawfish of America, 86.

Cray-fish, or craw-fish, artificially propagated, 94; its natural habits, 100; fishing for, 100, 101; Walpole’s account of, 102; journey of Africans in quest of, 103; huge dimensions of, as recorded by Pliny, 104; tables of ancient Rome often garnished with, 104; the common one of rivers, 106; its great abundance, 107; its natural habits, 107; various methods for capturing them, 108; shifts his shell, 109; wonderfully prolific, 109; held in high esteem by the Greeks and Romans, 110.

Creepers, use of the, 11, 12.

Crustaceans, their shell-shifting process, 6, 7; of the deep, 31; the principal food of the salmonidæ, 12; endless types of, in the Southern and Eastern Seas, 61; their monstrous size and strength, 62; troughs for hatching, 93; their proximity to other races, 99.

Cuffee’s attack on the land crabs, 53, 54.

Cup-shrimps, 82.

Cuttle-fish, the, 40, 41.

Cyamus ceti, the, 84.

Diver, fearful incident connected with the, 111, 112.

Dredges for shrimping, 76.

Dress for shrimping, 79.

Dromia lator, the, 64.

Echinocerus cibarius, the, 65.

Eel-basket, how constructed, 10.

Eel-grass, 99.

Euplectella, the, 38.

Feejee Islands, affection of a chief for a little midshipman, 3.