Note 4 — Chapter XLVIII · KAMCHATKA.

I saw a considerable number of dried trepangs, or sea-snails, at Vladivostock, worth in China 30 dollars the pickle of 133 lbs., say 1s. a lb. The Chinese employ them in the preparation of a nutritious soup in common with sharks’ fins, edible birds’ nests, and an esculent seaweed, or cabbage, of which last 3,000 tons are taken yearly from the bays of the Sea-coast province.