While I was cutting down some wood here, I perceived that, behind a very thick branch of low brushwood or underwood, there was a kind of hollow place: I was curious to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth of it, I found it was pretty large, that is to say, sufficient for me to stand upright in it, and perhaps another with me: but I must confess to you that I made more haste out than I did in, when looking farther into the place, and which was perfectly dark, I saw two broad shining eyes of some creature, whether devil or man I knew not, which twinkled like two stars; the dim light from the cave’s mouth shining directly in, and making the reflection.
Ik was nieuwsgierig, die te zien, en toen ik met moeite aan den ingang kwam, vond ik, dat, die vrij groot was, namelijk, dat ik er, en nog iemand naast mij, regt op in kon staan. Maar ik moet bekennen, dat ik er veel harder uitstoof dan ik er ingekomen was, toen ik dieper inziende, waar het stik donker was, twee helder flikkerende oogen zag van eenig schepsel, hetzij mensch of duivel, die daar als twee sterren flikkerden, en waar het flaauwe licht, dat in de opening der grot drong, in weêrkaatste.