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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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X- I.A H* % ^5 : o ;:^ o6 c» o fa 132 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. been twisted out of cocoa fibre, and prepared to ascend one of the trees.By means of this rope and his hands and feet he went up about asquickly as we could have ascended a staircase of the same height, andthrew down several nuts, with which we quenched our thirst. Any onewho has been in the tropics knows how refreshing is the milk of thegreen cocoanut when he is weary and thirsty.
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CRABS EATING COCOANUXa. ^ We saw some crabs feeding on cocoanuts, which are about thelast thing in the world you would suppose a crab could eat. Perhapsyoull laugh and be incredulous, but they really do eat cocoanuts, andget the meat out without any assistance. Cocoanuts are their principalfood, but they do not refuse other fruits, such as figs, candle-nuts, andnutmegs. This is the 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 pinc

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