When we told them how we placed ourselves and the horses in the middle, they blamed us exceedingly, and told us it was fifty to one but we had been all destroyed, for it was the sight of the horses which made the wolves so furious, seeing their prey, and that at other times they are really afraid of a gun; but being excessively hungry, and raging on that account, the eagerness to come at the horses had made them senseless of danger, and that if we had not by the continual fire, and at last by the stratagem of the train of powder, mastered them, it had been great odds but that we had been torn to pieces; whereas, had we been content to have sat still on horseback, and fired as horsemen, they would not have taken the horses so much for their own, when men were on their backs, as otherwise; and withal, they told us that at last, if we had stood altogether, and left our horses, they would have been so eager to have devoured them, that we might have come off safe, especially having our firearms in our hands, being so many in number.
Amikor elmeséltük azt is, hogyan sorakoztunk fel a farkasok ellen, közrefogva a lovainkat, a helybeliek alaposan megfeddtek bennünket, mert szerintük a lovak látványa vadította meg ennyire a farkasokat, és az esélyünk arra, hogy mindezt túléljük, egy volt az ötvenhez. Más esetekben a fegyvertől rögtön visszariadnak, de most rendkívül éhesek lehettek, és az a lehetőség, hogy elejthetik a lovakat, megfosztotta őket a veszélyérzetüktől.