And, as it happened, I had preserved the name of Balbec, which Legrandin had cited to us, as that of a sea-side place in the very midst of "that funereal coast, famed for the number of its wrecks, swathed, for six months in the year, in a shroud of fog and flying foam from the waves.
Horrexegatik gordea nuen oroimenean Legrandinek aipatua zigùn Balbec izen hura, hondartza bat bezala irudikatua, erabat hurbil omen zegoena "urtean zehar sei hilabetez lanbroen hil-mihiseak eta uhinen aparrak estaltzen dituzten eta hondoratze ugariengatik ospetsuak diren kostalde heriozko haietatik."