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Page 107
... fish rather than the perfume of copra . Under Captain " Bill " Anderson , the little schooner , workhorse of the Lanikai Fish Company , combed the teeming fishing grounds along the Hawaiian chain west , and the Line Islands to the south ...
... fish rather than the perfume of copra . Under Captain " Bill " Anderson , the little schooner , workhorse of the Lanikai Fish Company , combed the teeming fishing grounds along the Hawaiian chain west , and the Line Islands to the south ...
Page 108
... fish in a place where even ice was a rarity . Who knew ? Perhaps the fish had been dug out of an Antarctic icecap and were a hundred years old . Local tradition had it down through the generations that the only good fish was one still ...
... fish in a place where even ice was a rarity . Who knew ? Perhaps the fish had been dug out of an Antarctic icecap and were a hundred years old . Local tradition had it down through the generations that the only good fish was one still ...
Page 146
... fish that might be hooked . All too often at anchor , one beautiful red snapper after another , delectable food fish , helplessly impaled on the hook , would be expertly nipped off just abaft the gills by awaiting sharks . If , as in ...
... fish that might be hooked . All too often at anchor , one beautiful red snapper after another , delectable food fish , helplessly impaled on the hook , would be expertly nipped off just abaft the gills by awaiting sharks . If , as in ...
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