SADIE: I wondered what the bumphles were.

cosmic latte:

After this operation one battalion was left to garrison Chungshan; one company occupied Hsiaolan, about 25 kilometers northwest of Chungshan; and two companies patrolled the mountains north of Macao. In addition to this force, some 3,000 Nanking puppet troops were assigned peace preservation duties in the Chungshan area.

Roaring in from the south and the ocean, we saw a rolling white bank of clouds falling onto the bay and the town, a thick dense curse of a fog crawling downward, a fogfall,