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coral heads nearby. Brittle stare interested neither the crab nor the 
lobsters, I Imd found two flexible gray cucumbers, and offered him one 
of those. It sOB«how got tangled in his legs and becatae frightened, and 
began to release the long, transli,icent stichy strands that it dischargee 
to try to diecourage predators. Sosne of these becasje fastened to his 
claws and worried him a goai deal •*» in fact one claw appeared to be 
clami^sd shut with the threads. Tlie crab spent an hour, probably, pain- 
stakingly directing one claw towards the other one in an effort to remove 
them — like a crane operator trying to direct bis shovel to pick up a 
piece of clothesline. 
Today, after having begun to haunt the airlii^s in the hope th&t ny 
broken cacicra had been returned, I received a letter from Califortiia. 
The camera was still in custom, letter to them la answer to their 
cable had never arrived, ap;parently. So I sent another letter, Socstimee 
Bahamian mil is very quick. Sooettees letters vanish altogether. 
This evening we went back for some ni^t things. Worlsed around a 
coral formation near our shooting area, ilany pe.m>tB lying uMer aM 
alongside of coral boulders. They lie absolutely motionless until they 
are held in one's hand. Then they come awake into violent action, flying 
off and banging into anything and everything that etaMe in the way. I 
had sent the carreras back to the boat before I saw a cowfish near the bottom. 
It made no move when I picked it up. In fact, its fine relaxed altogether. 
I could bold it firmly or lightly, as I chose, and it rested without Esjving. 
Tlie color changed from a dull mottling to the most vivid aqua on a silver 
ground. After tilting it this way and timt with no sign of its being 
