Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- PART THE FIRST VOYAGE INTO SPITZBERGEN AND GREENLAND
- PART THE SECOND CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION OF SPITZBERGEN
- PART THE THIRD
- PART THE FOURTH OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- CHAP. I Of Birds with Toes or Divided Feet
- CHAP. II Of the Broad or Web-Footed Birds
- CHAP. III Of some other Birds that I did not Catch or Delineate
- CHAP. IV Of the Four-Footed Creatures
- CHAP. V Of the Crustaceous Fish that I Observed
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII Of the Whale
- CHAP. VIII How they Catch the Whale
- CHAP. IX What they do with the Dead Whale
- CHAP. X Of the Trying out of the Train-Oyl from the Fat
- CHAPTER XI Of the Finn-Fish
- CHAP. XII Of Rotz-fishes and Sea-qualms
- LIST OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAP. V - Of the Crustaceous Fish that I Observed
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- PART THE FIRST VOYAGE INTO SPITZBERGEN AND GREENLAND
- PART THE SECOND CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION OF SPITZBERGEN
- PART THE THIRD
- PART THE FOURTH OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- CHAP. I Of Birds with Toes or Divided Feet
- CHAP. II Of the Broad or Web-Footed Birds
- CHAP. III Of some other Birds that I did not Catch or Delineate
- CHAP. IV Of the Four-Footed Creatures
- CHAP. V Of the Crustaceous Fish that I Observed
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII Of the Whale
- CHAP. VIII How they Catch the Whale
- CHAP. IX What they do with the Dead Whale
- CHAP. X Of the Trying out of the Train-Oyl from the Fat
- CHAPTER XI Of the Finn-Fish
- CHAP. XII Of Rotz-fishes and Sea-qualms
- LIST OF THE ANIMALS OF SPITZBERGEN
- DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
I found two sorts of them, viz., crawfish and starfish; of the crawfish I saw four sorts, the sea-spider, as the Frenchmen call them; the red prawn; the small prawn, or the little small shrimp; and the whale's louse.
The starfish I put to them also, because they have their arms or legs, wherewith they move themselves, and are incrustated with shells.
Of the Sea Crawfish without a Tail, or Sea Spiders
This sort of crawfish has no tail, but six feet and two claws: they are else very like lobsters in the shape of their body. They are of a dark brownish colour, somewhat prickly on their backs, and hairy all over their body. I have seen many of this kind with six feet and two claws in my voyage to Spain, whereof I have also made a draught in my voyage into Spain (which I shall, God willing, communicate to the curious), but they differ from these of Spitzbergen in their bigness and head; this of Spitzbergen hath a head like a lobster, but the male of them that I saw in my voyage to Spain, made, with its head and tail, just the shape of a lute. I did not eat any of the Spitzbergen sea crawfish, neither have I drawn them at Spitzbergen for want of time, for I thought to have brought them along with me, but they were carried away by the rats.
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- A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and GreenlandComprising a Translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a Translation from Isaac de La Peyrère's Histoire du Groenland, and God's Power and Providence in the Preservation of Eight Men, pp. 91 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010