He saw, he says, "Ants go from their ant-hill, carrying the dead body of an ant towards another ant-hill, whence several other ants came out to meet them, as if to speak with them; where, after having been a while together, the last returned to consult, you may suppose, with their fellow-citizens, and so made two or three journeys, by reason of the difficulty of capitulation.
"Ikusi zuen, dio, beren xinaurritegitik abiatu ziren xinaurriak beste xinaurri hil baten gorputza beste xinaurritegi baten aldera zeramatelarik, handik beste xinaurri asko baitzetozkien aurrera, haiei mintzatzeko bezala; eta, elkarrekin egon ondoren aldi batez, hauek itzuli ziren erabakitzeko, uste duzu, beren hirikideekin, eta horrela egin zituzten bizpahiru bidaia akordioaren zailtasunagatik;