Christmas Island, in Oceanica, is infested with landcrabs two feet across which swarm over the camps of travelers in such large numbers as to be dangerous. A party of astronomers, led by Admiral Wharton, were unable to protect their supplies, and the crabs even carried away two large chronometers.-Popular Science Monthly.
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