To learn the secret of numbering sacks before taking to the bush, I had to submit to gradual asphyxiation in the Company's main warehouse along with the other clerks, between two scales wedged into the alkaline crowd of ragged, pustulous, singing black men.
Oihanera erretiratu aurretik zaku numeratzen ikasi behar nuela-eta, beste enplegatuekin batera itotzen entrenatu behar izan nuen Konpainiako biltegi zentralean, alboetan balantza haundi bana geneuzkala, beltz zarpazu, zornezu eta kantari haien jendeketa alkalinoaren erdian atzituak.