The Pearl, its story, its charm, and its value

INDEX

• A
• Abalone, 92, 170, 199, 244.
• Acapulco, 203.
• Advance of price, 277.
• Aelonians, 93.
• Alexander, 50.
• Ancient fisheries, 212.
• Angel's tears, 315.
• Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 49.
• Aquila Jewels, 85.
• Arabian Sea, 49, 51, 201.
• Aragonite, 167.
• Aripo, 219.
• Arkansas, discovery of pearls in, 259.
• Aroo Islands, 199, 202.
• Aryans, 64.
• Atokha, Virgin of, 329.
• Auris Marina, 246.
• Aurora Shells, 246.
• Australia, 201, 249.
• Avicula fucata, 127.
• squamulosa, 127, 239.
• B
• Bagdad, 213.
• Bahamas, 95.
• Bahrein, 212.
• Ball pearl, 44.
• Banda Islands, 202.
• Baroques, 82, 91, 155, 161.
• Base price, 276.
• Baskets, 228.
• Batjan, 200.
• Bazaruto Islands, 200, 233.
• Beira, 233.
• Beresford Hope pearl, 324, 326.
• Black-Shell, 144.
• Blister, 92.
• Blue-point, 268.
• Bochart, 57.
• Bones, pearls called, 50, 61.
• Boss, 140.
• Breastplate, Jewish High Priest's, 56, 61.
• Breeding of pearls, 312.
• Brown pearls, 329.
• Bull-head, 266.
• Butterfly, 268.
• Byssus, 243.
• C
• Cacique, 76.
• Calcospherules, 154.
• Caligula, 52.
• Campeche, Gulf of, 241.
• Cape San Lucas, 242.
• Cariaco, Gulf of, 238.
• Castiglione necklace, 84.
• Catifa, 326.
• Celebrated Pearls, 324.
• Ceram, 200.
• Cestodes, 173.
• Chank, 15, 98.
• Charles V., 47.
• Charlotte Bay, 249.
• Cheval paar, 221.
• Chilaw pearl banks, 219.
• Chiriqui, 237.
• Chunam, 231.
• Clammers, 262, 282.
• Clam pearls, 97.
• Cleopatra's pearl, 52, 320, 326.
• Clinch River, 260, 263.
• Clione, 154.
• Clodius, 52, 327.
• Coatzacoalcos, 241.
• Coche, 238.
• Colombia, 236, 241.
• Color of pearls, 101.
• Columbus, 46.
• Conch, 16, 94.
• Conchiolin, 133.
• Cortez, 46, 242.
• Cracked pearls, 119, 301.
• Crotalia, 53, 80.
• Cubagua, 46, 238.
• Culture pearls, 299.
• D
• Dahlak, 212.
• Dasyus, 64.
• Death of Pearls, 316.
• Deer-horn, 267.
• De Soto, 46, 47, 76.
• Devadatta, 98.
• Dew-drop origin of P., 311.
• Diamonds, 44, 56, 70.
• Diving, Dress, 178, 188, 192.
• Naked, 178.
• Dredging, 282.
• Dress, 189.
• Dudley pearls, 329.
• Dutch Indies, 200, 232.
• E
• Ear of Venus, 93.
• Ear-shell, 93, 245.
• Ecuador, 203, 237.
• Edward VII., 82.
• Elenchi, 80.
• Elizabeth, Queen, 48.
• El Tirano, 237.
• Exmouth Gulf, 249.
• F
• Facts and Fancies, 311.
• Farsan, 212.
• Fiji Islands, 202.
• File-fish, 174.
• Fisheries, Arabian Sea, 212.
• Ancient, 201, 255.
• Australian, 194, 202, 249.
• Fisheries, British, 255.
• Campeche, gulf of, 241.
• Ceylon, 201, 215, 289.
• Colombia, 237, 241.
• Dutch Indies, 232.
• Ecuador, 237.
• English, 242.
• German East Africa, 234.
• Haiti, 248.
• Indian, 214.
• Irish, 255.
• La Paz, 242.
• Lower California, 242.
• Madras, 215.
• Merguian archipelago, 201, 234.
• Mexican, 242.
• New Caledonia, 234.
• Nicaragua, 236.
• Omagh, 256.
• Panama, 237.
• Persian Gulf, 212.
• Philippines, 248.
• Portuguese East Africa, 233.
• Red Sea, 211.
• Scotch, 256.
• So. African, 257.
• Venezuela, 237, 239.
• Fishing, Ceylon gov't notification, 221.
• Depth of, 225, 232.
• Mexican, Season of, 243.
• U. S. mussel, 258.
• Polynesian, 183.
• primitive method, 179.
• time under water, 225.
• Tongarewa Islands, 186.
• with dress, 188.
• prices realized, 227, 289.
• Flodden Field, 320.
• Fluter mussel, 260.
• Francis I., 48.
• Fresh-water pearls, 90.
• G
• Gambier, 199, 203, 328.
• Genesis of Pearls, 127.
• Gilbert, Bishop of Limerick, 49
• Goajira, 239.
• Government Notification, 221.
• Gresham, Sir Thomas, 48, 321.
• Guatemala, 242.
• Guayaquil, 237, 287.
• Gulf of California, 203.
• Campeche, 204, 241.
• Gwaai River, 257.
• H
• Habitat of oysters and mussels, 199.
• Haiti, 205, 248.
• Haliotis, 16, 93, 206, 244.
• cracherodii, 247.
• iris, 246.
• mida, 246.
• rufescens, 247.
• splendens, 247.
• tuberculata, 245.
• Heel-splitter, 268.
• I
• Ichiaha, 76.
• Illinois, discovery of pearls, 259.
• Imitation pearls, 295.
• Imperfections, 111.
• Incas, 44, 46, 76.
• Inhambane, 200.
• Interference, 130.
• Iridescence, 130.
• J
• Jamboneau, 235.
• James IV., 320.
• Japan, 202.
• Jolo, 248.
• Julius Cæsar, 52, 81, 256, 327.
• K
• Kalanchu, 231.
• Katar, 212.
• Kshattriya, 27, 64.
• L
• Lampsilis anodontoides, 267.
• fallaciosus, 267.
• ligamentinus, 267.
• rectus, 267.
• La Pellegrina, 324, 326.
• La Paz, 242.
• La Peregrina, 324, 327.
• Largest Pearl, 326.
• Lesbos, 50.
• Lingah, 201, 212.
• Lohia, 211.
• Lollia Pollena, 52.
• Loreto, 242.
• Louis XIII., 49.
• Lower California, 242.
• M
• Macanao, 238.
• Macassar, 233.
• Madura, 215.
• Mafia, 206, 234.
• Malabar, 63, 179.
• Manaar, 216.
• Manchadi, 231.
• Manduck, 179.
• Mantle, 132.
• Maracaibo, 239.
• Margarita, 238.
• Maria Theresa, 49.
• Marichchikaddi, 221.
• Mary Queen of Scots, 48.
• Massawa, 211.
• Mathilde, Princess, 84.
• Maturity of Pearl Oysters, 205.
• Mazatlan, 242.
• Meleagrina, 90, 127.
• Merguian Archipelago, 200, 234.
• Methods of Fishing, 177.
• Mindanao, 248.
• Montezuma, 46.
• Moros, 182.
• Mother-paar, 219.
• Mounds, Indian, 40, 45, 76, 257.
• Mucket, 266.
• Mud-blisters, 92.
• Multiple, 276.
• Mussel, 90, 257.
• Mussel-egg, 43, 116.
• Mussel Anodonta herculea, 297.
• blue-point, 268.
• bull-head, 266.
• butterfly, 268.
• deer-horn, 267.
• fluter, 260.
• Hatchet-back, 268.
• heel-splitter, 268.
• Lake, 260.
• margaritifera, 255.
• mucket, 266.
• nigger-head, 266.
• painter's, 255.
• pearl, 255.
• red, 234.
• swollen-river, 255.
• sand-shell, 267.
• warty-back, 266.
• wash-board, 260.
• Mutton-fish, 245.
• Mytilene, 50.
• N
• Nassau pearls, 96.
• Nautillus, 16.
• New Caledonia, 172, 202, 234.
• New Guinea, 202.
• Nicaragua, 204.
• Nigger-head, 136, 266.
• Nomenclature, 56.
• Notch Brook pearl, 258, 330.
• Nuclei of pearls, 153, 174, 272.
• O
• Oahu, 206.
• Ohio pearls, 258.
• Old Testament reference, 56.
• Omagh, 49, 256.
• Oriental pearls, 89.
• Origin of pearls (fables), 311.
• Ormer, 93, 246.
• P
• Painter's mussel, 255.
• Panama, 203.
• Paraguana, 239.
• Parasites, 174.
• Pearls, Abalone, 92, 156.
• assortment of, 228.
• baroque, 155, 161, 279.
• black, 97, 105.
• blister, 92.
• blue, 104, 278.
• Bombay, 213.
• button, 155, 160.
• clam, 97, 156.
• colors of, 101.
• conch, 94, 156.
• cracked, 119.
• culture, 298.
• fancy, 105, 202.
• free, 154.
• fresh-water, 89, 90, 279.
• hammered, 120.
• hinge, 91.
• imitation, 295.
• Japan, 298.
• Madras, 102, 215, 277.
• Nassau, 96.
• oriental, 89.
• Panama, 104, 204.
• pear-shape, 80, 161.
• rose, 91.
• seed, 231.
• Shah of Persia, 326.
• slugs, 280.
• soft, 116.
• strawberry, 91.
• true, 89.
• twinned, 159.
• wing, 91, 280.
• Pearl-Oysters, 199.
• Pearlers, 262, 282.
• Peelers, 115, 248, 302.
• Peeling pearls, 115, 302.
• Periya paar, 220.
• Persian Gulf, 50, 201.
• Perthshire Tay pearls, 256.
• Peru, 46, 204.
• Philip II., 241.
• Pinna, 16, 206, 235.
• Plagiola securis, 268.
• Pleurobena aesopus, 266.
• Pliny, 52, 54, 66.
• Polynesians, 183.
• Pope Leo X. pearl, 328.
• Price of pearls, 275.
• Punta de Santa Cristoval, 243.
• Q
• Quadrula ebena, 266.
• pustulosa, 266.
• undulata, 268.
• Queen pearl, 330.
• R
• Rana of Dholpur, 78.
• Ravaillac, 320.
• Red Current, 253.
• Red Sea, 51, 200.
• Rhodesia, Southern, 206.
• Rio, Hacha, 237.
• Roman fashions, 80, 342.
• Rose pearls, 91, 266.
• S
• Sandalchin, 57.
• Sandaztros, 57.
• Sand-shells, 267.
• San Juan del Norte, 236.
• Season for mussel fishing, 270.
• Seed pearls, 231.
• Shankar, 15, 31.
• Shangani River, 257.
• Shankhásura, 98.
• Sharks Bay, 249.
• Shark-charmer, 224.
• Shell Australian, 145, 202.
• black, 144, 199, 202.
• bullock, 204, 236.
• distorted, 172, 252.
• Egyptian, 200.
• grayish, 145, 200.
• greenish, 145, 211.
• Lingah, 212.
• Shell Mexican, 204.
• Panama, 204, 236.
• Port Darwin, 249.
• price of, 235, 251, 270, 290.
• red-ears, 206.
• Sydney, 249.
• Tuamotu, 170, 200.
• Unio, 136, 200, 211.
• Venezuelan, 200.
• West Australian, 249.
• white, 145, 171.
• yellow, 145, 200.
• young, 205.
• Shoulder of mutton, 235.
• Sir Thomas Gresham, 48, 328.
• Sleeping Lion, 328.
• Slugs, 280.
• Soliman Pearl, 328.
• Sophie, Queen, 84.
• Southern Rhodesia, 206, 257.
• Spat, 169.
• Spawning time, 271.
• Spice Islands, 202.
• Spiritu Santo, 46.
• Spruce, John, 284.
• Strawberry-pearls, 91, 266.
• Strombus gigas, 94, 206.
• Sugar River, 264.
• Sulu Islands, 202, 248.
• Superstitions, 181, 311.
• Suran, 253.
• Sweet-water pearls, 90, 279.
• Swollen River mussel, 255.
• Symphynota complanata, 268.
• T
• Tahiti, 203.
• Tampa Bay, 46.
• Targum, 57.
• Tavernier, 49, 325.
• Tiburon, 242.
• Tinnevalli, 215.
• Tongarewa Islands, 186.
• Travancore, 25, 98.
• Tremellius, 57.
• Tritigonia verrucosa, 267.
• True pearls, 89.
• Tuamotu Archipelago, 200, 203.
• Turbinella Scolymus, 98.
• Turtle-backs, 92.
• Tuticorin, 215.
• U
• Umbo, 139.
• Unio, 90, 127, 136, 206.
• Unit of weight, 276.
• V
• Variation in weight of P., 241.
• Varieties, 89.
• Venezuela, 96, 237.
• Venus ear-shell, 16, 93, 245.
• Venus Genetrix, 81.
• Veragua, 237.
• Vishnu, 15, 98.
• W
• Warty-back, 266.
• Weight of mussel shells, 269.
• meat, 269.
• Westphalia Queen necklace, 84.
• White bones, 50, 61.
• White shell, 145, 199.
• Wisconsin pearls, 259.
• X
• X Rays, 231.
• Y
• Yellow shells, 200.
• Z
• Zanzibar, 200, 234.