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Went P.O. then up town doll shopping, bought an old Time, but proved one I had read.  Didn't get Questal place located right off so asked a man in an KLM office who knew the people we were looking for and indicated corner around to right, climbed steps to second floor, where we were met a blond woman of house, who said that she was Questal's married daughter but that he lived around corner to left.  On our way there, an auto passed and Clarke yelled out there is the man who wanted to know about his crab.  So we went back to daughters house, climbed steps again went through house into a second floor general store or sample room, through it to back office & their man showed us a South Pacific cocoanut crab, nicely mounted and varnished.  Said it had been taken in a fish trap 2 months or so before.  Well that made it doubtful because the robber (or cocoanut) crabs are terrestrial and would have drowned in fish pot or trap.  We speculated whether crab had been brought over with coconuts, or had by some chance been introduced into island and taken hold.

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