Description of the method of catching and the preparation for drying trepang. Further describes a trepanger’s camp and value of the catch between £80 to £100 per ton.

NOTE: Photograph 1 (392) from The Wingham Chronicle (founded 1880)
Photograph 2 (393) from FH Gray (Frederick Harold Gray) (1899-?)

1. Photograph: 'The Trepang.'

2. Photograph: ‘A trepanger’s camp, showing the smoke house’

Places mentioned: Darwin (NT)

Marine invertebrate mentioned; Trepang [sea cucumber] (Holothuroidea)

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 392, 393