But there was more work to do yet; for I perceived the savage whom I had knocked down was not killed, but stunned with the blow, and began to come to himself: so I pointed to him, and showed him the savage, that he was not dead; upon this he spoke some words to me, and though I could not understand them, yet I thought they were pleasant to hear; for they were the first sound of a man’s voice that I had heard, my own excepted, for above twenty-five years.
Ma non eravamo ancora nè egli nè io fuor dell’impaccio, perchè m’accorsi che il selvaggio da me atterrato, non morto, come pensai, ma soltanto sbalordito dalla violenza della percossa, cominciava a riaversi; la qual cosa feci notare al mio protetto, indicandogli a cenni che quel suo nemico era tuttora vivo. Su di ciò egli mi disse alcune parole, le quali, benchè non intendessi punto, mi furono gratissime, siccome il primo suono di voce umana che, eccetto la mia, avessi udito da ventidue e più anni.