5 Il mesura encore mille coudées; c'était un torrent que je ne pouvais traverser, car l'eau était si profonde qu'il fallait y nager; c'était un torrent qu'on ne pouvait traverser.
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He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.