But it was enough to have terrified a bolder man than I; and, indeed, it alarmed all our company, when, with the noise of Friday’s pistol, we heard on both sides the most dismal howling of wolves; and the noise, redoubled by the echo of the mountains, appeared to us as if there had been a prodigious number of them; and perhaps there was not such a few as that we had no cause of apprehension: however, as Friday had killed this wolf, the other that had fastened upon the horse left him immediately, and fled, without doing him any damage, having happily fastened upon his head, where the bosses of the bridle had stuck in his teeth.
Het was genoeg om een moediger man dan ik te ontzetten, en ons geheele gezelschap was er inderdaad van verschrikt, toen wij na het afschieten van Vrijdags pistool, aan weerszijden het afschuwelijkst wolvengehuil hoorden, dat door de echo's in het gebergte verdubbeld werd, zoodat het scheen alsof er eene ontzettende menigte was, en misschien waren er genoeg om ons reden tot vrees te geven. Toen echter Vrijdag den eenen wolf had doodgeschoten, liet de ander dadelijk het paard los, en nam de vlugt.