But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.
Baina bazegoen bertan ibai bat bereziki, ibai handi ahaltsu bat, mapan ikusten zena, sigi-sagako suge ikaragarria zirudiena, burua itsasoan, gorputza atsedenean luze bihurriturik herrialde zabal batean zehar, eta isatsa lurraldearen barrenean galtzen zitzaiona.