Naked from throat to navel, their dark brown bodies painted with white lines ("like asphalt tennis courts," Lenina was later to explain), their faces inhuman with daubings of scarlet, black and ochre, two Indians came running along the path.
Lepotik zileraino larru hutsik, beren gorputz beltzeran nabarrez ("asfaltozko tenis pistak bezalatsu" esanen zuen geroago Leninak) eta arabesko gorri, beltz eta orizkaz estalitako aurpegi zakarrez, bi indio korrika zetozen bidean zehar.