It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
Herriak kanal beltz bat zuen, bai eta ibai bat ere, tintearen kiratsaz ubeldurik zihoana, eta horrez gainera, leihoaz betetako eraikuntza pilo bat; hauetan matraka eta dardara itzela zegoen egun osoan, eta lurrun-makinaren pistoia gora eta behera ari zen lan gogaikarrian, erotasun malenkoniatsuak hartutako elefante baten burua bailitzan.