‘i am not afraid,’ said pau amma, and he rose to the top of the sea in the moonlight. there was nobody in the world so big as pau amma for he was the king crab of all crabs. not a common crab, but a king crab. one side of his great shell touched the beach at sarawak; the other touched the beach at pahang; and he was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes! as he rose up through the branches of the wonderful tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young, and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors.