I found two sorts of them, viz., crawfish and starfish; of the crawfish I saw four sorts, the sea-spider, as the Frenchmen call them; the red prawn; the small prawn, or the little small shrimp; and the whale's louse.

The starfish I put to them also, because they have their arms or legs, wherewith they move themselves, and are incrustated with shells.

Of the Sea Crawfish without a Tail, or Sea Spiders

This sort of crawfish has no tail, but six feet and two claws: they are else very like lobsters in the shape of their body. They are of a dark brownish colour, somewhat prickly on their backs, and hairy all over their body. I have seen many of this kind with six feet and two claws in my voyage to Spain, whereof I have also made a draught in my voyage into Spain (which I shall, God willing, communicate to the curious), but they differ from these of Spitzbergen in their bigness and head; this of Spitzbergen hath a head like a lobster, but the male of them that I saw in my voyage to Spain, made, with its head and tail, just the shape of a lute. I did not eat any of the Spitzbergen sea crawfish, neither have I drawn them at Spitzbergen for want of time, for I thought to have brought them along with me, but they were carried away by the rats.