The sunlight fell so implacably from a fixed sky that one was naturally inclined to slip away out of the reach of its attentions, and even the slumbering water, whose repose was perpetually being invaded by the insects that swarmed above its surface, while it dreamed, no doubt, of some imaginary maelstrom, intensified the uneasiness which the sight of that floating cork had wrought in me, by appearing to draw it at full speed across the silent reaches of a mirrored firmament;
Argitasuna hain errukigaitz jausten zen zeru higigaitzetik non haren arretari ihes egiteko gogoa sentitzen baitzenuen, eta urloak berak ere, bere betiko xomorro loaren narritatzaileekin, irudimenezko Maelstrom baten ametsa gogora ekarriz, areagotu egiten zidan kortxo flotatzailea ikusteak eragina zidàn ezinegona, abiadura ezin azkarragoan baitzerabilen etengabe berau hara eta hona ortzi islatuaren gainazal isiletan barrena;