As soon as he could get a regular weapon, that is to say, one of the guns which Pencroft begged for, Gideon Spilett resolved to make desperate war against the ferocious beasts, and exterminate them from the island.
Pero cuando tuvieran un arma formal, es decir, uno de esos fusiles que Pencroff reclamaba, Spilett prometía hacer una guerra encarnizada a las fieras y purgar de ellas la isla.