bêche

Before they left, they presented me with a quantity of bêche-de-mer, or sea-slugs, which make most excellent soup.

Certainly he had found them without the almost universal bêche-de-mer English of the west South Pacific.

This fact seems to be against the opinion, that the nests are composed of the spawn of fish, or of bêche-de-mer.

I fancy some of the Tahiti schooners trade here for pearl, shells, and bêche-de-mer.

One of his tambos (tambo being bêche-de-mer and Melanesian for “taboo”) was that water unavoidable must never touch his skin.