when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
Erregeari bururatzen zaionean bere nobleetakoren bati heriotza onberatasunez ematea, zoruan hauts nabar bat barreiatzeko agintzen du eta, osagai hilgarriak dituenez, hura miazkatzen duena hogeita lau orduren barruan hiltzen da derrigorrez.