Distance, long, far away......Iak-shik-tuk. Dog...........................Sa-baccca.

Qak shik-tok.

G Good, all right...............A-shik-tuk.

Iak-shik-tuk. Leave, to walk................A-jak-tuk.

Sudden puffs of wind rustled the leaves of the maupei and fled hurriedly, and from somewhere in the coral rocks one of those red-striped lizards that are sometimes found in the rocky parts of the Carolines sent his unearthly shik-shuck into the stillness, where one fancied it a little projectile of sound crushed in its efforts to pierce the tremendous silence of the night.