The Palolo
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Feasting in Samoan Islands
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, October 27.
THE palolo—the mystery creature of the coral reefs —appeared as usual this year, strictly according- to schedule, on October 19. The native Samoans were all ready and waiting for their favourite delicacy and, when the moon indicated that the moment' had come, the natives went to the reefs and gathered large quantities of the marine worm, and there was much feasting. The occasion was not confined to the Samoans—many Europeans appreciate this delicacy of the South Seas, and palolo, for a day or two, appeared on many formal tables in Upolu and Savaii.
Mr. A. H. Gauld, Burns, Philp and Co.’s plantation inspector, was a passenger for New Guinea by the October Montoro.