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.
Pero incluso alguien más valiente que yo se habría asustado ante esto, como en efecto sucedió, pues toda la compañía se inquietó cuando, después del disparo de Viernes, comenzamos a oír por todas partes unos tremebundos aullidos que, redoblados por el eco de las montañas, parecían provenir de una descomunal jauría de lobos. Lo más probable es que no fueran pocos, por lo que nuestros temores estaban justificados.