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.

在我们下方，褐黄色的纳波河水正在涨潮。万俱寂，惟见河水沿着沙岸蜿蜒流过，水沫裹挟在生在森林里的以及盘绕岸边的树根上。