Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.

在我们，黄色的纳波河正在涨潮。万俱寂，惟见河沿着沙岸蜿蜒，沫裹挟在蔓生在森林里的藤蔓间以及盘绕岸边的树根上。