En la flaqueza del rostro, y en las ropas que pendían holgadas de los miembros resecos, se adivinaba el porqué de ese aspecto decrépito y precozmente senil: aquel hombre agonizaba, agonizaba de hambre y de sed.
His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance. The man was dying—dying from hunger and from thirst.