"sarupo iko se nak ambo alah bajalan pula ka arah Sungai Nanam kalau ambo caliak tampek tu sangek rancak untuak di buek gunuang, dan di alahan panjang ko ado pulo tigo bukik jadi katigo bukik ko bia lah niniak pindahan se ka Sungai Nanam untuak di jadian gunuang.
And, indeed, when at length he disappeared for three days, after he had been last observed mooning along the coast, there was a terrible panic lest he should have sought a congenial and soothing end in the embraces of the quicksands....