The night was coming on, and the light began to be dusky, which made it worse on our side; but the noise increasing, we could easily perceive that it was the howling and yelling of those hellish creatures; and on a sudden we perceived three troops of wolves, one on our left, one behind us, and one in our front, so that we seemed to be surrounded with them: however, as they did not fall upon us, we kept our way forward, as fast as we could make our horses go, which, the way being very rough, was only a good hard trot.
COMBAT AVEC LES LOUPS La nuit approchait et commençait à se faire noire, ce qui empirait notre situation; et, comme le bruit croissait, nous pouvions aisément reconnaître les cris et les hurlements de ces bêtes infernales. Soudain nous apperçûmes deux ou trois troupes de loups sur notre gauche, une derrière nous et une à notre front, de sorte que nous en semblions environnés.