The coolies, earth-coloured and mute, crouched reverently some twenty or thirty yards away, and the Babu, the slack of his thin gear snapping like a marking-flag in the chill breeze, stood by with an air of happy proprietorship.
Cooli-ak, lur koloreko eta mutututa, begirunez kuzkurtu ziren hogei edo hogeita hamar bat metrotara, eta babua, arropa arinaren parte askeak haize jelatutan bandera bat bezala mugitzen zitzaizkiola, aldamenean zegoen zutik jabe baten itxura zoriontsuaz.