Thousands of junks are employed in the trepang fisheries.
The trepang is now placed upon hurdles and dried in the sun.
Thousands of junks are annually equipped for the Trepang fisheries.
In this process the trepang gives up all the water it contains, and is withdrawn at the end of two minutes.
According to the account I had from the Malay captain, the price of trepang in the Chinese markets was fifteen rupees, about thirty shillings the pekoul, or a hundred and twenty-five pounds.
A small English company is engaged in the industry of trepang fishing.
Trepang or beche-de-mer, otherwise known as sea cucumbers and sea slugs, are an important food luxury amongst the Chinese and other Eastern people.
He did not want to buy gutta-percha or beeswax, because he intended to employ his numerous crew in collecting trepang on the coral reefs outside the river, and also in seeking for bird's nests on the mainland.
The man wants to collect trepang and birds' nests on the islands.
Illustration: The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the most remarkable animal structure in the world] The trepang exported from this section requires considerable care in preparation.
The best class of trepang is packed in tin cases to keep it perfectly dry, as moisture ruins it.
On the whole, the precautions requisite properly to prepare Trepang are so manifold and require such an expenditure of time, that only those who for years have been exclusively devoted to the business can secure a successful result.
Talipan varies in length from 9 inches to 2 feet, and is the most peculiar-looking of all the Trepang species.
Called Trepang by the Malays, hai-schni by the Chinese, and Biche-de-mar by both English and French.
Of the large number of varieties of Trepang which are found among the coral reefs of the Pacific, there are only ten suited to the Chinese market, which are accurately distinguished by their special names.
Probably the former mode of preparing it would not pay for a ship, since at least twenty days are necessary to dry Trepang in the sun, whereas over a wood fire the same end is attained in four days.
In order to prepare these four sorts of Trepang for commerce, they are first soaked in a large iron kettle for from 5 to 10 minutes in boiling water, and when thoroughly heated through, are taken out.
Consequently the trade is exceedingly remunerative, and numbers of captains have within a very few years realized a competency and even affluence by preparing Trepang for the Chinese market.
A certain degree of dexterity and practice are requisite for boiling Trepang to the proper point and afterwards drying it.
Trepang dried in the sun is more valuable than that dried on the island, nor does the native ever care for those he dries over his wood fire.
The trepang obtained here is only considered as third-rate; that from the Tenimber group second, and from Australia first-rate.
On the 28th of March, six Malay proas came in and were soon followed by others, their owners soliciting permission to erect their establishments for curing trepang under the protection of the British flag.
A good deal of salt is made, and there is a considerable fishery of trepang (sea-slug) and tortoises for the sake of the shells.
When the Bugis paid their annual visit to the coast several prahus remained to fish for trepang under the protection of the settlement.
No traces of the former people were observed at this place, nor any of the trepang that would be their sole inducement for visiting it.
Account of the Trepang Fishery on the coast of New Holland.
The method of curing the trepang is thus described by Captain Flinders: "They get the trepang by diving, in from three to eight fathoms water; and where it is abundant, a man will bring up eight or ten at a time.
The trepang were found about the rocks on the beach in great numbers, as they were also on the South Island.
The value of the trepang in 1822 was much less; the price had fallen to twenty-five dollars the picol.
One of the proas soon afterwards passed by with Dutch colours displayed, to which its crew repeatedly pointed, at the same time hailing us in an unintelligible jargon, of which Macassar and Trepang were the only words that were distinguished.
The whole of this gulf is admirably formed for the trepang fishery and the animal is extremely abundant among the reefs.
Their method of curing is thus described by Flinders:-- "They get the trepang by diving in from three to eight fathoms of water, and where it is abundant a man will bring up eight or ten at a time.
The trepang is a sort of sea-slug, which is dried and used by the Chinese to make soup.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trepang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
