Conseil had just made a cast of the dragnet, and his gear had come back up loaded with a variety of fairly ordinary seashells, when suddenly he saw me plunge my arms swiftly into the net, pull out a shelled animal, and give a conchological yell, in other words, the most piercing yell a human throat can produce.
Acababa Conseil de dar un golpe de draga y de elevar su aparato cargado de diversas conchas bastante ordinarias, cuando, de repente, me vio hundir el brazo en la red, retirar de ella una concha, y lanzar un grito de conquiliólogo, es decir, el grito más estridente que pueda producir la garganta humana.