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The sun rose high in the sky as the _Esperance_ returned to the wharf. / Davis went ashore and held lengthy conversations with Manila by / short-wave radio. The biologists essayed to investigate the squid. _La / Rubia_ still attempted to catch fish. All efforts seemed to tend toward / frustration.
When Terry walked over to see his victim at close range, he found the / biologists balked by the mere huge size of the squid. There were / literally tens of tons of flesh to be handled. Squid have no backbone, / but a modified internal shell is important to biologists for study. The / biologists wanted it. The gills needed to be examined, and their / position under the mantle noted, and their filaments counted. The / nervous system of the huge creature must have its oddities. But the / actual preservation of the squid was out of the question. The mere / handling of so large an object was an engineering problem.