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to be got.' If carefully prepared, the flesh is eatable, but it always 

 retains a rank flavour which is repulsive to most people. The liver, 

 however, is one of the island delicacies, but if eaten in any quantity 

 its flavour is also unpleasant. The male is considered poisonous by 

 most of the islanders, and is therefore nol eaten." 



