Most of the white conscripts were permanently in the hospital, sleeping off their malaria, riddled with parasites made to order for every nook and cranny in the body, whole squads stretched out flat between cigarettes and flies, masturbating under moldy sheets, spinning endless yarns between fits of painstakingly provoked and coddled fever.
Tropa kopuru gehiena ospitalean egoten zen denbora guzian bere paludismoa zaintzen, ile guzietatik eta azal-arte guzietan parasitoz bete-beteak, eskadroi osoak zigarroen eta eulien artean etzanik maindire urdinduen gainean masturbatuz, amaigabeko aharrausiak eginaz, sekulako enbusteriak asmatuz, sukarraldi bat orain, atakeren bat gero, denak eskrupulu haundiz preparatuak eta mimatuak.