However, after some pause I recovered myself, and began to call myself a thousand fools, and to think that he that was afraid to see the devil was not fit to live twenty years in an island all alone; and that I might well think there was nothing in this cave that was more frightful than myself.
Pure dopo una certa pausa ricuperando alcun poco di spirito, cominciai a darmi le mille volte del matto e a pensare che chi avea paura di vedere il diavolo non era fatto per vivere venti anni solo in un’isola, e che in quella caverna da vero non poteva esservi nessuna cosa più spaventosa di me.