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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
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e way they do it: The crab climbs a tree and pushes down a ripe cocoanut, which iseasily detached, and he shows a great deal of sagacity in selecting onlythe ripe nuts. Then he comes down to the ground and tears the huskfrom the nut, and he always begins at the end where the eye-holes are. LAND-CRABS IN SAMOA. 133 If the tree is a sloping one, and there are rocks underneath, he climbsup again, carrying the nut with him, and drops it on a rock, where itwill be broken. If the situation is not favorable for this performance,he digs into the eye-holes until he makes an entrance suflaciently largeto admit his pincers, ^vith which he withdraws the meat. These land-crabs are excellent eating, though they are rather toooily for a delicate stomach. They live in large holes, which they digthemselves and line with the fibre torn from the cocoanut-shell. Theygrow to a great size, and sometimes a single crab will yield a quart ofoil. They are distinctively land-crabs, and the natives say they only
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A PLANTATION IN THE SOCTII SEA ISLANDS. use the sea to bathe in. We asked our guide if all crabs in Samoa aregood to eat, and he answered that all land-crabs were, but the sea oneswere doubtful, some of them being poisonous at certain seasons of thevear. 134 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTEALASL\.

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  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Knox__Thomas_Wallace__1835_1896
  • bookauthor:Harper___Brothers__pbl
  • booksubject:Voyages_and_travels
  • booksubject:Adventure_and_adventurers
  • booksubject:Tutors_and_tutoring
  • booksubject:Friendship
  • booksubject:Sailing
  • booksubject:Sailors
  • booksubject:Animals
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Harper___Brothers
  • bookcontributor:School_of_Theology__Boston_University
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