TREPANG

is an unsightly sea slug or ‘sea cucumber,’ otherwise known as bcche-dc-mer. It is caught in the tropical waters off the Indian and Australian coasts by wading over mud banks at low water and groping in the sand with your bare toes 1 It is considered such a delicacy in the Celestial soup-kitchen that £100 it brings the Maca ar importers as much as a ton.