I have seen one left stark naked for dead in a ditch, his neck black and swollen, with a halter yet about it with which they had dragged him all night at a horse's tail, his body wounded in a hundred places, with stabs of daggers that had been given him, not to kill him, but to put him to pain and to affright him, who had endured all this, and even to being speechless and insensible, resolved, as he himself told me, rather to die a thousand deaths (as indeed, as to matter of suffering, he had borne one) before he would promise anything;
Bat ikusi dut, hobi batean biluzik hiltzat utzirik, lepoa osoki zauriturik eta hanpaturik oraindik zintzilik zeukan lokarri batek, hartaz gau osoaz herrestaturik izan baitzen zaldi baten buztanetik, gorputza ehun lekutan zulaturik puinal-ukaldika, ez baitzitzaizkion ematen hiltzeko baina min eta beldurraren eragiteko; hori oro jasan zuena, hitza eta sentimendua galdu arte, erabakirik, esan zidatenez, mila heriotzaz hiltzera (egiazki, pairamenari buruz, bat osorik iragan zuen bezala) deus agindu baino lehen;