I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness.
Inguruari begiratu nion, eta ez dakit zergatik baina zinez diotsuet, egundaino ez zitzaizkidan iruditu lurraldea, ibaia, oihana, zeru irazekiaren sabai goiena bera ere, hain etsigarri eta hain ilunpetsu, hain barrenezin giza gogoarentzat, hain errukigabe giza ahuldadearentzat.