My mother sometimes tells me that never in my whole life shall I ever again see rivers as beautiful and big and wild as these, the Mekong and its tributaries going down to the sea, the great regions of water soon to disappear into the caves of ocean.
Nire amak batzuetan esaten dit neure bizi osoan ez dudala ikusiko, inoiz ere ez, hain ibai ederrik, hain handirik, hain bizirik, Mekong eta bere adarrak, ozeanorantz jaisten direnak, ur-eremu horiek, ozeanoaren barrunbeetan galduko direnak.