They were old men who fished and crabbed together in an express cruiser in the San Juans and had gone eighty-four days now without eating a crab. They were salao, which is the worst form of crab hungriness. It made the crabs sad to see the men coming on the Mountain View, for they sensed the impending feast aboard the vessel, to which they were invited in the most unpleasant manner imaginable....
