The dugout canoes drift silently along the waters, past mud-banks and screeching birds.
独木舟悄无声息地在水面上划过，经过泥土的河岸，听见鸟儿在鸣叫。
2
Reluctantly they left the water and made new home in the marshes and on the mud-banks that lay at the foot of the mountains.
它们不得不离开海水，来到沼泽里安家，在山角下的泥岸上生长。
3
Six weeks after torrential rains caused the Indus river to break its banks, inundating their mud-walled villages in Rajanpur, a district of southern Punjab, their anguish is not feigned.