The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . ief sketch will close, the beche-de-mer, or sea-slug, aspecies of Holut/inria, is extensively collected among the Pacific islands as an article ofcommerce. In external appearance, even when fresh, it is not pretty, but when split anddried for the Chinese market it is about as unappetising an article from which to makesoups as could well be imagined. In Fiji, they are procured from the reefs at low water,or are obtained by diving in from two to three fathoms, esp
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . ief sketch will close, the beche-de-mer, or sea-slug, aspecies of Holut/inria, is extensively collected among the Pacific islands as an article ofcommerce. In external appearance, even when fresh, it is not pretty, but when split anddried for the Chinese market it is about as unappetising an article from which to makesoups as could well be imagined. In Fiji, they are procured from the reefs at low water,or are obtained by diving in from two to three fathoms, especially in a locality on thenorth side of Yanua Levu, to which to this day many vessels from America and the Australiancolonies resort, in order to buy this unsightly delicacy from the Fijian fishers. In the * Races of JIankind, Vol. II., pp. 26, 27. ruLVXKSIAX ANIMALS. 21 preceding- page;? we have said nothing aLout New Zealand natural history, having for thereasons mentioned thought it unadvisable to include that colony under the PolynesianIslands; for beyond the accident of having been originally peopled by wanderino ^^tj/^^. THE LA>D-CUAB OF THE IlJIS (Birgos latrO). Polynesians (the Maori), it has little or nothing in common with the coral or volcanicisles of Oceania.* * Angas : Polj-nesia, pp. 27-S5 ; Seemaim: Flora Viticnsis, and Viti: An Account of a GovernmentMission to the Fijian Islands (1860-Gl); Smythes Account of the same Mission: Bennett: Gatherings of anAustralasian Naturalist; St. Julien: Official Report on Central Polj-nesia () ; Macgilli\Tay: Narrativeof the Voyage of Sattlesiinie (18o2); Hood: Notes of a Cruise in Fau-n (1863); Meineke:Die Inseln der Stillen Oceans, eine geographische monographie (187C) : &c. 23 CHAPTER II. The Saxdwicii Islands : Their History and Present Condition. To the ungeogi-aphical mind the group of Oceanic Islands to which, in 1778, the nameo£ the then First Lord of the Admiralty was applied, is associated wit
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