He could only fancy, as in some old-world fable, that if a man went westward to the end of the world he would find something-say a tree-that was more or less than a tree, a tree possessed by a spirit;
Bere baitan zera fantasiatu baino ez zezakeen egin, antzinako alegia batean bezala, gizon batek, mendebalerantz abiatzen bazen munduaren bazterreraino, aurkituko zuela zerbait-demagun zuhaitz bat-zuhaitz bat baino gehiago edo gutxiago zena, izpiritu batek harturiko zuhaitz bat edo;