However, I saw the poor fellow was most terribly scared, for nothing ran in his head but that they were come to look for him, and would cut him in pieces and eat him; and the poor fellow trembled so that I scarcely knew what to do with him. I comforted him as well as I could, and told him I was in as much danger as he, and that they would eat me as well as him.
Je le réconfortai de mon mieux, et lui dis que j'étais dans un aussi grand danger, et qu'ils me mangeraient tout comme lui.--«Mais il faut, ajoutai-je, nous résoudre à les combattre; peux-tu combattre, Vendredi?»--«Moi tirer, dit-il, mais là venir beaucoup grand nombre.»--«Qu'importe! répondis-je, nos fusils épouvanteront ceux qu'ils ne tueront pas.»--Je lui demandai si, me déterminant à le défendre, il me défendrait aussi et voudrait se tenir auprès de moi et faire tout ce que je lui enjoindrais.