Candide — Chapter 20 in Spanish
By Voltaire
Lo que le sucedió a Cándido y Martín durante su travesía What Befell Candide and Martin on Their Voyage
Embarcóse pues para Burdeos con Candido el docto anciano, cuyo nombre era Martin. The old scholar, whose name was Martin, took shipping with Candide for Bordeaux. Ambos habian visto y habian padecido mucho; y aun quando el navío hubiera ido de Surinam al Japon por el cabo de Buena Esperanza, no les hubiera en todo el viage faltado materia para discurrir acerca del mal físico y el mal moral. They both had seen and suffered a great deal; and if the ship had been destined to sail from Surinam to Japan round the Cape of Good Hope, they could have found sufficient entertainment for each other during the whole voyage in discoursing upon moral and natural evil.
Verdad es que Candido le sacaba muchas ventajas á Martin, porque llevaba la esperanza de ver á su Cunegunda, y Martin no tenia cosa ninguna que esperar: y le quedaba oro y diamantes; de suerte que aunque habia perdido cien carneros grandes cargados de las mayores riquezas de la tierra, y aunque le escarbaba continuamente la bribonada del patron holandés, todavía quando pensaba en lo que aun llevaba en su bolsillo, y hablaba de Cunegunda, con especialidad después de comer, se inclinaba al sistema de Panglós. Candide, however, had one advantage over Martin: he lived in the pleasing hopes of seeing Miss Cunegund once more; whereas the poor philosopher had nothing to hope for. Besides, Candide had money and jewels, and, notwithstanding he had lost a hundred red sheep, laden with the greatest treasure on the earth, and though he still smarted from the reflection of the Dutch skipper’s knavery, yet when he considered what he had still left, and repeated the name of Cunegund, especially after meal-times, he inclined to Pangloss’s doctrine.
Y vm., señor Martín, le dixo al docto, ¿qué piensa de todo esto? “And pray,” said he to Martin, “what is your opinion of the whole of this system? ¿Qué noción tiene vm. del mal moral y natural? What notion have you of moral and natural evil?”