Santa and Banta fly to the south sea islands to study the natives They go to two adjacent islands and set to work A few months later Santa takes a boat over to the other island to see how Banta is doing When he gets there he finds Banta standing among a group of natives Greetings How is it going? says Santa Wonderful says Banta I have discovered an important fact about the local language Watch He points at a palm tree and says What is that? The natives in unison say Umbalo-gong He then points at a rock and says And that? The natives again intone Umbalo-gong You see says the beaming Banta They use the SAME word for rock and for palm tree That is truly amazing says the astonished Santa On the other island the same word means index finge

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