Crossword-Solution: RAE 3 letters, 766 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

CHAPTER III On the wreck--Efforts to kindle a fire--My flagstaff--Clothing impossible--Growing corn in turtles' blood--My house of pearl shells--How the pelicans fished for me--Stung by a "sting-rae"--My amusements--A peculiar clock--Threatened madness--I begin to build a boat--An appalling blunder--Riding on turtles--Preaching to Bruno--Canine sympathy--A sail--How I got fresh water--Sending messages by the pelicans--A wonderful almanac--A mysterious voice of hope--Human beings at last.

After breakfast, my dog and I would go out to catch a peculiar sort of fish called the "sting-rae." These curious creatures have a sharp bony spike about two inches in length near the tail and this I found admirably adapted for arrow-heads.

There was only a slight scratch on my ankle, but for a long time my whole body was racked with pain, and when the natives got to know of the symptoms they told me that I had been attacked by a "sting-rae." The spike or sting measures from two to six inches in length according to the size of the fish.

The flesh of the sting- rae was not pleasant to eat, being rather tough and tasteless, so I used it as a bait for sharks.

Miss Rae, by the way, says she’s wild to know you; thought you were the most provoking man she ever saw; and that you were--nonsensical idea--engaged to Mae.