Yet Petrarch could allow himself to write such a quatrain as the following list of rivers "Non Tesin, Pò, Varo, Arno, Adige e Tebro, Eufrate, Tigre, Nilo, Ermo, Indo c Gange, Tana, Istro, Alfeo, Garrona, è 'l mar the frange, Rodano, Ibero, Ren, Senna, Albia, Era, Ebro!"

There are crabs and crawfish, eels and shrimps, prawns and varos, all hung up on strings.

But he is not so odd as the varo one of the most delicious and expensive of Tahitian foods.

She is richer in flavor, and more deadly than the male to one who has a natural diathesis to poisoning by varos.

Others find that the varo rests uneasy within them, as though each claw or tooth of the comb grasped a vital part of their anatomy.

I think varos excellent when wrapped in hotu leaves, and grilled as a lobster.

Catching varos is tedious and requires skill.

Trapping varos calls for patience and much dexterity.

Six varos make a good meal, with bread and wine, and they are most enjoyable hotalso most indigestible.

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Crabs being in the first categorypaapaa,would cost about thirteen cents a pound, and the succulent varo the same, whereas they were then two francs, or forty cents a pound.

It was not entirely fishless, for before the bell rang we would see over the railings a few handfuls of varos, crayfish, and shrimps and perhaps a dozen small baskets of oysters.

Varos, marvelously spiced, prawns, and crayfish, garlanded the bases of these sylvan shafts, all highly decorative, and within reach of their admirers.

My left-hand neighbor was indifferent in choice, and ate everything nearest to him first, and without order, taking feis or bananas or a goldfish, dozens of shrimps, a few prawns, a crayfish, and several varos, but informing me, with a caress of his rounded stomach, that he was saving most of his hunger for the chicken, pig, and poi.

The chief said that at the isthmus of Taravao, the junction of the fan and handle, there was the Maison des Varos, a famous roadhouse, kept by M. Butscher, where one might have the best food in Tahiti if one notified the host in advance.

One had to choose the left or the right, and we wound to the right to reach the Maison des Varos.

On the floor by the kitchen was a Tahitian woman with a baby and a pandanus-basket of varos.

I set a grapnel in each hole, and then returned to the first to pull out the varo.

He wrapped the varos in hotu-leaves, and put them in the umu to steam on the red-hot stones, and began to open oysters and fry fish in brown butter, as Tatini and I hastened to the beach for a bath.

" At the Maison des varos I breakfasted alone, for Tatini was too shy to break the taboo that separated the sexes at meals.

Butscher waited on me, bringing one plate of ambrosia after anotheroysters, shrimp, varos, and fish.

I sent with her my love to the Tetuanui clan, and some delicacies from the Maison des Varos for the half-blind Haamoura.