They also cast anchors from them to ensure the solidity of the bridge, but they allowed the hawsers to drift slack, so that when the river rose the boats might all rise with it without the line being broken.
Untziak, elkarren arteko distantzia berdinean, bi muturretatik haga sendoz lotuak, urez kontra jarrita zeuden, zubiaren irm otasuna mantentzeko aingurak ere botarik, baina ainguren kableak teink flotatu gabe, ura handitzean, untzi lerroa oztopo gabe igo zedin.