Crossword-Solution: HOOPA 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Equipped with individual _taa-taas_ and quart cocoanut shells of _hoopa_, a delicious twenty-seven per cent.

With hold-alls of _panjandrus_ leaves packed with a supply of breadfruit sandwiches, sun-baked cuttywink eggs and a gallon or two of _hoopa,_ we would go to one of the lovely retreats with which our wives were familiar.

One day it would be a performance of the _Ataboi_, the languorously sensuous dance which we had first seen in the women's compound; again he would stage a scene of feasting, at which the men passed foaming shells of _hoopa_ from hand to hand.

Hundreds of times did I raise the welcoming hoopa-shell with the usual salutation--"Lomi-lomi,"--"May you live for a thousand years and grow to enormous size." In a rest period Kippy and I swam to the reef where the younger set were sporting among the coral, diving for pearls which rolled on the purple floor.

Every evening we opened fresh gourds of _hoopa_ and made large inroads into our stores of _pai_, pickled _gobangs_ and raw crawfish.