The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country, and were about to plunge into its recesses, held dangerous at that time from the number of outlaws whom oppression and poverty had driven to despair, and who occupied the forests in such large bands as could easily bid defiance to the feeble police of the period.
Az utasok eljutottak az erdős vidék szélére, és megállás nélkül behatoltak a sűrűségbe, s ez veszedelmes helynek számított a sok szegénylegény miatt, aki ott tanyázott. A rettenetes elnyomás és a rettenetes nyomor kergette ezeket a kétségbeesésbe.