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，褐纳波河水正在涨潮。万俱寂，惟见河水沿着沙流过，水沫裹挟在蔓生在森林里藤蔓间以及盘绕边树根上。