visit beyond all expectations. They stayed on and on that morning, 
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and as noont,-t}»e rolled aroimd were on hand for limch. This might 
have posed a problem - there were six girls - but for the fact that 
the day before the local fisherman had been asked to bring in some 
spiny lobsters for specimens with such other crabs and shrimps they 
very 
might secure. Early this^morning some four or five fishermen in 
tv^o outrigger canoes brought me a total of 49 lobsters and, in 
addition, 2 Scyllas a genus of large swimming crabs Y/idely 
distributed in the Indo-Pacif ic-— and a dozen huge stomatopods, 
all 14-16 inches in length. I was aghast at this bountiful liarvest. 
far larger than the half-dozen or so I had expected to get. G 
ood-Y^ill , 
however, is good-¥/ill, especially in a stange place; besides, spiny 
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lobsters are delicious eating. So we had s'^pecimens as well as an 
abundance of fine sea food for a number of meals to come. 
Tne 
lobsters, cooked and refrigerated, v;ere ready to eat; with cooked 
rice and lots of butter-— the Polynesians surely love buttery-limeade, 
and canned plums for dessert, a real banquet was had. With true 
domesticity, the girls carried the dishes to the tap on the vmter- 
supply line a short distance from the dock, and v/ashed them there, 
■while Dr. Bowman scouted around for amphipods in the swampy area 
into ’Which the water drained. This w-as kept continually wet by 
overflow and wastage, as home ovmers living in the area came here 
for their fresh water. I called it ’’the spring”, for as such the 
intermittently used water tap functioned. 
With the drying and the stowing away of the dishes in their 
proper ’’pigeon holes” on the galley shelves ended, iie were ready 
