He did so, and had but just time to get away, when the wolves came up to it, and some got upon it, when I, snapping an unchanged pistol close to the powder, set it on fire; those that were upon the timber were scorched with it, and six or seven of them fell; or rather jumped in among us with the force and fright of the fire; we despatched these in an instant, and the rest were so frightened with the light, which the night—for it was now very near dark—made more terrible that they drew back a little; upon which I ordered our last pistols to be fired off in one volley, and after that we gave a shout; upon this the wolves turned tail, and we sallied immediately upon near twenty lame ones that we found struggling on the ground, and fell to cutting them with our swords, which answered our expectation, for the crying and howling they made was better understood by their fellows; so that they all fled and left us.
Femmo tosto una sortita sopra una ventina circa di essi, prostesi sul terreno e lottanti con la morte che loro affrettarono le nostre armi da taglio. E da ciò ancora ottenemmo un nuovo vantaggio, perchè gli ululati mossi da questi morenti, e uditi dai loro compagni gli atterrirono con tanta efficacia, che finalmente non vedemmo più altri di quella esecrata genia.