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Updated: May 12, 2025
But the most delicious meat of all comes from the land crabs and the crayfish. These are caught in great numbers when the crabs migrate from the mountains to the coast. Once a year they make this journey, for the purpose of depositing their eggs in the sand. The sea fisheries are important to the people of Puerto Rico.
If you were to set these excellently dressed crayfish before a fine horse he would disdain them, and could not understand how foolish men could find anything palatable that tasted so salt. Salt, in fact, is not suited to all creatures!
And then, no doubt, there are crayfish in the gravel under the stones; but we must not mind a pinch to our fingers in taking them." "To-morrow, then, let us breakfast on fish," said Hector. "You and I will try our luck, while Kate gathers strawberries; and if our line should break, we can easily cut those long locks from Catharine's head and twist them into lines."
Stir in the sherry and make a pink cream which is to be mixed through the shrimps and not cooked. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve with squares of toast or crackers. Lobsters and Lobsters When is a lobster not a lobster? When it is a crayfish.
Evidently it was to be a banquet. Piled up in the centre of the table was a large dish of crayfish, and at each plate there were five were groups of large and small glasses.
It has several curious symbols, the most striking being huge aerial fishes, in imitation of the 'koi, or 'carp; large crimson streamers, representations of Gongen Sama crushing a demon; and the heads and tails of crayfish, with which they decorate their dishes and the entrances of their houses.
Enormous crabs, crayfish, giant lobsters and sea spiders crackled under the dwarfs feet, then crawled away leaving some of their claws behind, and in their flight rousing horrible molluscs and octopuses centuries old that suddenly writhed their hundred arms and spat fetid poison out of their bird-beaks. And yet King Loc went on undaunted.
There are various ways of catching crayfish; but in this district the favourite method is the following: Small wire hoops, about a foot in diameter, are covered with netting strained nearly tight, and to this pieces of liver or other meat are tied. A cord a few yards long, fastened to the centre of the netting, completes the tackle.
"The Queen of the Island reprieves you," said he, and put down the terrapin, which went off very leisurely for a reprieved reptile. Then Hazel produced a fine bream, which he had found struggling in a rock-pool, the tide having turned, and three sea crayfish, bigger than any lobster.
There are several empty houses here, just over the brow of the beach, and in one of them there is a midnight supper for us all crayfish, baked fish, pork, and chickens, and young coconuts to drink." The two native women leading the way, the whole party soon gained the houses, which stood in a thick grove of giant jack-fruit trees.
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