This, however, I knew not; and therefore was under continual apprehensions for a good while, and kept always upon my guard, with all my army: for, as there were now four of us, I would have ventured upon a hundred of them, fairly in the open field, at any time.
Toutefois, ignorant cela, je fus pendant assez long-temps dans de continuelles appréhensions, et me tins sans cesse sur mes gardes, moi et toute mon armée; comme alors nous étions quatre, je me serais, en rase campagne, bravement aventuré contre une centaine de ces barbares.