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.
Deze werden dadelijk afgemaakt en de overigen waren zoo verschrikt van het vuur, dat zij een weinig terugtrokken. Hierop gelastte ik al onze pistolen gelijk af te vuren en tevens hard te schreeuwen, waarop de wolven het hazenpad kozen, en wij op een twintig gekwetsten aanvielen, die op den grond lagen, en ze in een oogenblik afmaakten, hetwelk een gelukkig gevolg had, want hun gekerm en gehuil werd door hunne makkers zeer goed begrepen, die de vlugt kozen en ons verlieten.