The trepang is a sort of sea-slug, which is dried and used by the Chinese to make soup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Seaworth] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Islamist Monitor] Reference

The town lies in a fertile plain and deals in rice, trepang and pina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

The method of curing the trepang is thus described by Captain Flinders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

The trepang exported from this section requires considerable care in preparation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The best class of trepang is packed in tin cases to keep it perfectly dry, as moisture ruins it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Sea-cucumbers, as they are popularly called, are also known by the name of trepang and sea-slug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

A thousand trepang make a picol, of about 125 Dutch pounds; and 100 picols are a cargo for a proa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

The trepang were found about the rocks on the beach in great numbers, as they were also on the South Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

Besides trepang, they trade in sharks 'fins and birds' nests, the latter being worth about 3000 dollars the picol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

It seriously threatens important fishing stocks in the region, including shark, trepang, trochus and several fin-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Minister: Collaboration and Cooperation in the Arafura-Timor Sea Region] Reference

The whole of this gulf is admirably formed for the trepang fishery and the animal is extremely abundant among the reefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

The presence of a fleet of Malay proas in the roads has been before mentioned; it had just returned from an unsuccessful voyage on the south coast of Timor in search of trepang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

Islands, a fleet of proas was met with, fishing for trepang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

The man wants to collect trepang and birds 'nests on the islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river] Reference

Australia's northern shores in December for four months to catch trepang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Palestine Blogs] Reference

The sailor inquired, more civilly -- "Then you are acquainted with trepang?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wings of the Morning] Reference

The iron most probably had been obtained from the Malays who annually visit the gulf for trepang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

Half an hour later the proa's cargo of sago and trepang, as well as a doubtful-minded compass, was in the Haliotis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

Both bear up to 4GB DDR3 reputation, biometric fingerprinting, 802.11 trepang / g, Bluetooth 2.0, and optional WiMAX.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

There are many productions of the archipelago which are only valued in the East, such as bêche-de-mer, or trepang; edible birds 'nests, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery] Reference

The man wants to collect trepang and birds’ nests on the islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almayer's Folly] Reference

Besides trepang, they trade in sharks 'fins and birds' nests. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

Balate (trepang), 312.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

There are two kinds of trepang.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2] Reference

"There are two kinds of trepang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

New Guinea produces good beeswax, pearls, tortoise-shell, trepang, birds-of-paradise, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference