George told us about a man he had known, who had come up the river two years ago and who had slept out in a damp boat on just such another night as that was, and it had given him rheumatic fever, and nothing was able to save him, and he had died in great agony ten days afterwards.
Giorgio ci narrò d’un suo conoscente, ch’era venuto sul fiume due anni prima e che, per aver dormito in una barca umida, s’era beccato una febbre reumatica. Nulla aveva potuto salvarlo, e dieci giorni appresso era morto dopo una straziante agonia.