A dappled back in the leaves
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Ali por entre a folhagem, distinguiam-se as ondulações felinas de um dorso negro, brilhante, marchetado de pardo; às vezes viam-se brilhar na sombra dois raios vítreos e pálidos, que semelhavam os reflexos de alguma cristalização de rocha, ferida pela luz do sol.
There, through the foliage, could be made out the feline undulations of a black, glossy back, dappled with grey-brown; at times two glassy, pale rays glinted in the shade — resembling the reflections of some rock-crystal struck by the light of the sun.
In the hedge: the feline undulations of a black, dappled back, and two glassy pale eyes glinting in the shade like light on rock-crystal.
The jaguar is introduced not as a body but as motion and light: 'ondulações felinas,' two crystalline gleams. Alencar makes us see it the way Peri does — a pattern in the leaves before it is a beast.
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