But it was enough to have terrified a bolder man than I; and, indeed, it alarmed all our company, when, with the noise of Friday’s pistol, we heard on both sides the most dismal howling of wolves; and the noise, redoubled by the echo of the mountains, appeared to us as if there had been a prodigious number of them; and perhaps there was not such a few as that we had no cause of apprehension: however, as Friday had killed this wolf, the other that had fastened upon the horse left him immediately, and fled, without doing him any damage, having happily fastened upon his head, where the bosses of the bridle had stuck in his teeth.
Il y avait là de quoi épouvanter un plus vaillant que moi; et de fait toute la compagnie s'alarma quand avec la détonation du pistolet de VENDREDI nous entendîmes des deux côtés les affreux hurlements des loups, et ces cris tellement redoublés par l'écho des montagnes, qu'on eût dit qu'il y en avait une multitude prodigieuse; et peut-être en effet leur nombre légitimait-il nos appréhensions. Quoi qu'il en fût, lorsque VENDREDI eut tué ce loup, l'autre, qui s'était cramponné au cheval, l'abandonna sur-le-champ et s'enfuit.