He went down lower, lost in the midst of these chasms which continued to multiply, beaten and turned round by the waterspout of the springs, so badly lighted by the red star of the lamp moving on below, that he seemed to distinguish the roads and squares of some destroyed town far away in the play of the great moving shadows.
Il descendit encore, perdu au centre de ces vides qui augmentaient sans cesse, battu et tournoyant sous la trombe des sources, si mal éclairé par l'étoile rouge de la lampe, filant en bas, qu'il croyait distinguer des rues, des carrefours de ville détruite, tres loin, dans le jeu des grandes ombres mouvantes.