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.
Cominciava ad imbrunire, perchè s’avvicinava la notte a far la nostra condizione più trista, e lo strepito crescea sempre di più, quando ci accorgemmo che derivava tuttavia da ululati di quelle diaboliche creature. In un subito ne vedemmo tre branchi, uno a sinistra, l’altro a destra, il terzo a fronte di noi, sì che potevamo dire d’essere accerchiati dai lupi.