The next morning our guide was so ill, and his limbs swelled so much with the rankling of his two wounds, that he could go no farther; so we were obliged to take a new guide here, and go to Toulouse, where we found a warm climate, a fruitful, pleasant country, and no snow, no wolves, nor anything like them; but when we told our story at Toulouse, they told us it was nothing but what was ordinary in the great forest at the foot of the mountains, especially when the snow lay on the ground; but they inquired much what kind of guide we had got who would venture to bring us that way in such a severe season, and told us it was surprising we were not all devoured.
Là nous fûmes donc obligés d'en prendre un nouveau pour nous conduire à Toulouse, où nous ne trouvâmes ni neige, ni loups, ni rien de semblable, mais un climat chaud et un pays agréable et fertile. Lorsque nous racontâmes notre aventure à Toulouse, on nous dit que rien n'était plus ordinaire dans ces grandes forêts au pied des montagnes, surtout quand la terre était couverte de neige.