meat is much like that of any other crab. The abdomen cooked 
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along with it, however, is full of^melted butter the oily a fat 
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rendered liquid by the heat of cookin^yt^ 
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oner Clip, 
his chunks of crab mea’^^j((j'ah epicurean treat, par excellency 
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That a robber crab can open coconuts - young, or fully ripe /> 
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with the tough outer husk still on, or just the fully ripe ’’nut 
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itself - is ct , moot point/ - I have yet to meet an eyewitness 
to such a performance. Though I have changed my opinion from pro 
to con and back again in the light of statements made by various 
naturalists, I feel more than ever that a fully groY/n robber crab 
in good condition can open a ripe coconut in its husk if he is so 
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minded. He possesses the "tools” and the muscular s__,trength to 
successfjilly accomplish the task. 
It is hard to say -#Yhich of the islands visited we shall 
remember longest. Each of these Society Islands has its , ovm 
peculiar charm, and equally lovely people, and some experience 
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connected Y/ith it that will stay with -as as long as live^. 
For me, at least, it was the night , three 
days after the picnic on board ship mentioned above, on which 
Dr. Rehder and I went out on the Bora Bora reef. 
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The natives go lobster hunting on this reef at night, and as 
F;ere anxious— tOk.oarticipate in such an excursion, the Captain 
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arranged 
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twoeXh^ienced fishermen to take us out on Friday 
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April 26, two nights before we were to leave Bora Bora. 
As these men lived in Vaitape, he moved the "Mareva" over to the 
