It was about two hours before night when, our guide being something before us, and not just in sight, out rushed three monstrous wolves, and after them a bear, from a hollow way adjoining to a thick wood; two of the wolves made at the guide, and had he been far before us, he would have been devoured before we could have helped him; one of them fastened upon his horse, and the other attacked the man with such violence, that he had not time, or presence of mind enough, to draw his pistol, but hallooed and cried out to us most lustily.
Due ore quasi prima di sera il conduttore nel precederci s’era alquanto scostato da noi, onde lo avevamo perduto di vista, allorchè sbucarono dal folto di una contigua selva tre enormi lupi, e dietro ad essi un orso. Due di questi lupi investirono la guida e buon per lei che non ci era andata avanti di tanto, poichè certo sarebbe stata divorata prima che avessimo potuto correre in suo aiuto.