Palolo Arrives
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THE peculiar coral worm called “palolo”, which comes to the sur face on only one or two days each year, and which is regarded in Samoa as a great table delicacy, appeared in the waters around Savai’i, Sa’moa, on Wed nesday. October 23, and fishermen made a good haul.
The palolo comes to the surface onlv in the "dawn of the opening of the third quarter of the moon in Savai’i and the same period of the moon in November in Upolu Immediately the sun appears, the floating mass apparently dissolves and in a few minutes there is not a trace to be seen.