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.
Nálam bátrabb ember is megszeppent volna, amikor meghallja a Péntek pisztolylövése nyomán az út két oldaláról felhangzó baljós farkasüvöltést, amely most az egész társaságunkra ráijesztett. A hangokat ráadásul a hegyek is visszaverték, és úgy tűnt, hatalmas tömegben vesznek körbe bennünket a vérszomjas vadak.