He did so, and had but just time to get away, when the wolves came up to it, and some got upon it, when I, snapping an unchanged pistol close to the powder, set it on fire; those that were upon the timber were scorched with it, and six or seven of them fell; or rather jumped in among us with the force and fright of the fire; we despatched these in an instant, and the rest were so frightened with the light, which the night—for it was now very near dark—made more terrible that they drew back a little; upon which I ordered our last pistols to be fired off in one volley, and after that we gave a shout; upon this the wolves turned tail, and we sallied immediately upon near twenty lame ones that we found struggling on the ground, and fell to cutting them with our swords, which answered our expectation, for the crying and howling they made was better understood by their fellows; so that they all fled and left us.
Là-dessus je commandai de faire une décharge générale de nos derniers pistolets, après quoi nous jetâmes un cri. Les loups alors nous montrèrent les talons, et aussitôt nous fîmes une sortie sur une vingtaine d'estropiés que nous trouvâmes se débattant par terre, et que nous taillâmes à coups de sabre, ce qui répondit à notre attente; car les cris et les hurlements qu'ils poussèrent furent entendus par leurs camarades, si bien qu'ils prirent congé de nous et s'enfuirent.