Doves, a multitude of which had their nests about villas and in small towns of the Campania, and also every kind of field-bird from near the sea and the surrounding mountains, mistaking evidently the gleam of the conflagration for sunlight, were flying, whole flocks of them, blindly into the fire.
Rengeteg galamb fészkelt Campania városkáiban és villáiban, s ezek, valamint mindenféle tengerparti és környékbeli mezei madár is, a tűzvész fényét napfénynek nézve, csapatostul vakon röpültek a tűzbe.