He gradually became aware that what had woken him was a very faint and tiny singing noise, a reedy little sound like the wind caught in a cowries shell, but with an edge of menace to it.

他渐渐意识到叫醒他的是一种非常微弱的歌声，一种芦苇般的细小声音，就像裹在牛壳里的风，但有一种威胁的边缘。

Conseil picked a couple bunches. As for the local fauna, it included thousands of crustaceans of every type: lobsters, hermit crabs, prawns, mysid shrimps, daddy longlegs, rock crabs, and a prodigious number of seashells, such as cowries, murex snails, and limpets.

至于动物，那就是各种各样的甲壳类、、盘蟹、长手蟹、苗、长脚、加拉蟹，以及数不清的量蚌蛤、磁贝、岩贝、编笠贝。