Word: trepang
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...Monfreid meets, among others, an imprisoned spy (a "venomous reptile") whose escape he enables and later regrets; a Chinese trepang trader on a deserted island; a metrosexual polyglot butler; a Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
...arrested the three--two in St. Louis, one in New York--on charges of conspiring to steal the USS Trepang, based in New London, Ct. Roy B. Klager Jr., an FBI agent, said the FBI discovered the plot when Edward J. Mendenhall and James W. Cosgrove, two of the accused conspirators, contacted an undercover agent seeking funds for training and supplies...
Klager said the men showed the agent written plans for using a twelve-man crew to take the Trepang into the Atlantic Ocean, where they would make a rendezvous with an unidentified buyer
...congratulations on your splendid article about our friend Eugenie, the dugong [Dec. 5]. Eugenie did not survive on a diet of "clams and cucumbers," as you stated. The clams were factual enough, but the cucumbers were a reference to "sea cucumbers," which is a more common name for "trepang," more exactly denned as Holothuria edulis, a sea slug, and a pretty far cry from a genuine cucumber...
Such a mongrel was little Nawnim (No Name), half-caste son of Mark Shillingsworth. Father Mark spent his time between pearl diving, trepang fishing, debtors' jail, bouts with delirium tremens in the local hospital...
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