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supper, and at night hung the waterproofed electric light over 
the side. The wealth of small animal life such a light attracts 
is unbelievable; larvae of all kinds, fish, worms, crabs, shrimp, 
mollusks, and other forms of marine life come swarming in such 
numbers as to constitute what has aptly been called plankton 
soup. Tiirough this ''Soup” may dart lightning-s?/ift squids or at 
times scores o^lsh of sizes varying according to their preferred 
foods - whether smalO^lanktonic organisms or fishes smaller than 
N(ire oTTei^^aH 
. Under favorTrble eonaition ; 
themselves 
»s quarts of these diverse 
kinds of marine life can be had by merely swishing a dip net 
through the water. 
A 
^ming back to that stomatopod supper: the. meat g 4 - .,t,ba 
as in the case of spiny lobsters, is what you primarily eat. 
Cooked the same way, the tail of Sauilla is about the most tooth- 
some piece of crustacean meat you ever set your t^eth to.y Strange 
as it may seem, the flavor is very sweet. To associate ’^very Svfeet” 
•with lobster or crustacean flesh may s t r i ke- rn n -n y n-s incongruous, 
but the fact in no ’way lessens the pleasure of eating Squllla tails 
Speaking of delectable crustacean food, on another occasion 
we enjoyed for the first tim^ robber or coconut crabl Having read 
thiat on some South Pacific islands this crab has been exterminated 
by 'natives hunting it for food, a'nd that it is getting .scarcer in 
o 
hother hungry 
enemy of this unique crab’, the wish to taste it, expressed to the 
captain, resulted in an out-of-the-ordinary crustacean disln The 
So. 
WAV' ^hx.e , 
