While I was cutting down some wood here, I perceived that, behind a very thick branch of low brushwood or underwood, there was a kind of hollow place: I was curious to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth of it, I found it was pretty large, that is to say, sufficient for me to stand upright in it, and perhaps another with me: but I must confess to you that I made more haste out than I did in, when looking farther into the place, and which was perfectly dark, I saw two broad shining eyes of some creature, whether devil or man I knew not, which twinkled like two stars; the dim light from the cave’s mouth shining directly in, and making the reflection.
Curioso di esaminarla, entrai non senza fatica per la bocca della cavità stessa che trovai fin nella sua origine assai ampia, cioè capace perchè ci stessi in piedi io e forse un altro in mia compagnia; ma sono costretto a confessarvi di esserne uscito più presto che non v’entrai. Appena ebbi guardato più addentro, vidi due grand’occhi fiammeggianti di qualche creatura vivente, se del diavolo o d’un uomo, non seppi allora, perchè la pallida luce che veniva dalla bocca della caverna incontrandosi in essi e riflettendosi, li facea scintillare come due stelle.