There were old patients of mine here and there, male and female, that I'd long stopped thinking about, and still others, the black man in a white cloud, all alone, the one they had given one lash too many down there in Topo, and old man Grappa, the lieutenant of the virgin forest!
Bezeroak ere baziren makina bat, nereak, han eta hemen, emakumeak ere bai, gogotik zeharo kenduta neuzkanak, eta beste batzuk, beltza, hodei zuri baten barrenean, bakar-bakarrik, behar baino azote bat gehiago hartutako hura, han, Topoz geroztik ezagutu nuen, eta zera ere bai, Grappa adixkidea, oihan birjineko tenientea!