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n. - Of warm coasts from Australia to Asia.

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  • The trepang is a sort of sea-slug, which is dried and used by the Chinese to make soup.
  • The Macassarese traded with local Indigenous people and fished for 'trepang' (commonly known as sea cucumber), which they sold as a delicacy on the lucrative Chinese market.
  • The town lies in a fertile plain and deals in rice, trepang and pina.
  • The method of curing the trepang is thus described by Captain Flinders:
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