Meanings of trepang in English

The man wants to collect trepang and birds' nests on the islands.

There are two kinds of trepang, the black and the white or grey slug.

New Guinea produces good beeswax, pearls, tortoise-shell, trepang, birds-of-paradise, etc.

Besides trepang, they trade in sharks' fins and birds' nests.

When amongst the English Company's Islands, a fleet of proas was met with, fishing for trepang.

The sailor inquired, more civilly-"Thenyou are acquainted with trepang?"

The iron most probably had been obtained from the Malays who annually visit the gulf for trepang.

There are two kinds of trepang.

Besides trepang, they trade in sharks' fins and birds' nests, the latter being worth about 3000 dollars the picol.

He sold dem for trepang-beche-de-mer.

For example, there were sugar-coated worms, preserved red snails, trepang,- akindof sea-worm,-andputrid doves' eggs in an unspeakable sauce.

The whole of this gulf is admirably formed for the trepang fishery and the animal is extremely abundant among the reefs.

The trepang were found about the rocks on the beach in great numbers, as they were also on the South Island.

The productions of these islands are sandalwood, beeswax, pearls, tortoiseshell, trepang, edible birds' nests, Indian corn, rice, vegetables, with abundance of livestock.

When the Bugis paid their annual visit to the coast several prahus remained to fish for trepang under the protection of the settlement.

A thousand trepang make a picol, of about 125 Dutch pounds; and 100 picols are a cargo for a proa.