"Please take me away from this place," he said, very agitated.

"Sácame por favor de este lugar," dijo, demasiado agitado.

"Please put yourself again at the place where you were,"

"Ponete otra vez en el lugar donde estabas,"

The snake went in backwards into the place where he had been,

Entró otra vez la víbora reculando en el lugar donde estuvo,

"Who will go into such nonsense?"

"Quién irá en esas tontería?"

And there finally he arrived at the house of his close friend the [female] goat,

Y allá al final fue a llegar a la casa de la comadra cabra,

to invite her also for his saint day.

a invitarla también para su día santo.

Around noon, his friend the goat came arriving at the party.

Hacía el mediodía, fue llegando su semejante la cabra a la fiesta.

"From where do you come to my saint day like this,"

"De dónde ya venís así a mi día santo,"

there is a big spring, where all the animals of the forest drink.

había una surgente de agua grande, donde todos los animales del bosque beben.

"where there are lots of deer;"

"donde hay tantos venados,"

and the tiger stayed there, tied up.

y quedó ahí el jaguareté, atado.

The turtle also arrived there, where they were having a conversation.

Llegó la Tortuga también ahí, en la conversación.

"Here I am," the turtle said to him, "two steps away from you."

"Aquí estoy," le dijo tortuga, "a dos pasos delante del avestruz."

"two steps away from where you are."

"a dos pasos delante de donde estás."

It turned out that her people that had gone to the race,

Y había sido que ésta su gente que se habían ido a la carrera [como para la carrera]

And on the third time, Peru put his hand in the snake’s mouth and,

Y a la tercera vez, metió la mano Peru en la boca de la víbora y,

And those were the [former] bones that he had dug out from under the ground, it turns out, searching for the treasure.

Y esos [eran] los huesos [former bones] que habían sacado ellos de debajo de la tierra, había sido que, buscando lo enterrado [=tesoro].

And finally, it was suddenly eleven o’clock. We got up and he took me where there was a funerary urn,

Y a las cansadas, finalmente llegó las once. Nos levantamos y me llevó donde estaba un cajón,

It was much after that one afternoon I was going to the funeral of an angel,

Desde ese tiempo lejano una tarde me iba al entierro de un angelito,

It is said that José Domingo threw a big stick –that was the name of one of those coming on horseback, it turns out - right next to where Agui was.

Se dice que tiro un garrote José Domingo- así se llamaba uno de los que venían a caballo, había sido que-cerquita de donde estaba Agustín.

And after two or three days his parents would bring him back again.

Y dos tres días después su mamá y esos [y otros] le traían otra vez.

After whenever his parents found him again around there, his mother and father did not recognize him.

Después si su mama y su papá le encontraban a él nuevamente allí por donde andaba, ya ellos no lo reconocían.

Then it is said that he went to enter a large camp.

Después dice que se fue a entrar a un campamento grande

...And it is said that his wife stuck a knife where a chicken was sleeping,

...y dicen que su señora clavo una gallina en donde ésta dormía,

And then it seemed that he woke up again and found himself again where people [of the camp] lived.

Y después parecía que ya se despertó otra vez y se encontraba donde viven las personas [de la toldería] otra vez.