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.
Quando raccontammo la nostra istoria ai Tolosani, udimmo nulla esservi di più solito ad avvenire in quella immensa foresta al più delle montagne, massime per tutto il tempo che la terra rimane coperta dalle nevi. Poi ci chiesero qual razza di guida avevamo tirata fuori che si fosse rischiata a condurci su quella strada in così rigida stagione.