He had never been anywhere before on water, except to New Orleans from New York and back to New York again, but then he had been working on a banana boat mostly below deck, and he had hardly realised he was on water.
Sekula ez zen inora joan itsasoz, bakarrik behin New Yorketik New Orleansera, joan eta etorri, baina garai hartan banana-ontzi batean lan egiten zuen eta kubierta azpian egin zuen bidaiaren zatirik handiena, uretatik zihoala konturatu ere egin gabe ia.