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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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THE BOTTOM OF THE LAGOON. WONDERS OF THE TAHITIAN EEEF. 87 To the student of marine life a coral reef is full of interest, and thatof Tahiti is one of the finest in the world. Here are some of the curi-ous things that were described by our friends: We saw, said Frank, some enormous starfish with fifteen armscovered with sharp spines of a gray and orange color. These spineswere on the top of the arms; the bottom had an array of yellow feelerslike fingers, with suckers at the ends. The boatmen cautioned us not to touch these creatures, but theircaution was not needed, as we allkept our hands at a respectful dis-tance. There were thousands andthousands of sea-urchins, some ofthem with spikes as large as yourfingers and stiff as a nail, downto little fellows the size of a pig-
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SEA-ANEMONE AND HERMIT-CRAB. eons egg, and armed with long needles like the quills of a porcupine.It is no joke to step on one of these things when you are bathing in thesea and have your feet unprotected. Somebody has likened them tothistles, and says they more or less resemble hedgehogs and porcupines.Urchin, according to the dictionary, means hedgehog, and therefore thename is not inappropriate. There are sea-anemones as large as a cheese, and of all the colorsyou can imagine. An amusing thing about them was that a lot of lit-tle fishes, not more than two inches long, were playing hide-and-seek, THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA.

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