Chapter C

Cancer of the Zodiac, 1;
representation of the, 1, 2;
depicted in heraldic devices, 3.

_Cancer dentatus_, the, 63.

_Cancer pagurus_, the edible crab of the shops, 8.

“Cape pigeons,” 66.

“Cape salmon,” 66.

_Cardium exignum_, 43.

Chads, capture of, 18.

Chemistry, judgments created by, 27.

Cherry of Australia, 67.

Cochineal bug, colour produced by the, 27.

Cocoa-nut eating crab, the, 45, 46, 48.

Colour, change of, in boiling crabs, 26.

Colours produced by different agencies, 27.

Columbus, anecdote of, 67.

Conger eels, their habits, 102.

Coral-formed islands of the South Seas, 51.

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.