That evening, the son of the captain of the boat, a young lad in his second year of middle school who had taken us to Maoyu, carried a bird cage and climbed the cliff in the dark. By midnight he had caught more than thirty Nordmann's terns.
當夜，送大夥到貓嶼的漁船主人國中二年級的兒子，背著鳥籠，摸黑登上臨海的岩壁，才下半夜就捉到了卅幾隻燕鷗。