spickles

Updated: May 18, 2025

Others were round like blow-fish, with their spickles at every angle, menacing in look. The clams and oysters were small, except the furbelowed clam, whose shell is fluted, and who grows to an immense size in the atolls of the Paumotus. I always ate my fill of these delicacies raw as I walked along the reef, smashing the shells to get at the inmates.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.