Mkusanyiko Juu ya Miamba
Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been taught to ask about families turn out to be the wrong shape for them.
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Keep it on your phone โSafari ya mashua kwenda kwenye miamba ni fupi. Miamba ni mifupi na yenye maji. Sili wa kijivu walilala juu yake. Hawakuwa wakifanya lolote.
Polly akamchagua sili mkubwa. "Mko wangapi katika familia yenu?" akauliza. Alifikiri kwa muda mrefu. Kila mmoja aliye juu ya mwamba huu, akasema. Na kila mmoja aliye juu ya mwamba unaofuata.
"Je, una kaka au dada?" Bila shaka, akasema. Hakujua ni wapi. Orkney ina watoto wa sili karibu elfu ishirini na mbili kila mwaka.
Polly akajaribu sentensi. "Nataka kutumia muda na familia yangu leo." Ilisikika ya ajabu hapa. Kisha akajaribu, "Ingawa tunaishi mbali kwa mbali, sisi huwasiliana daima." Hiyo iko karibu zaidi, sili akasema.
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