While I was cutting down some wood here, I perceived that, behind a very thick branch of low brushwood or underwood, there was a kind of hollow place: I was curious to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth of it, I found it was pretty large, that is to say, sufficient for me to stand upright in it, and perhaps another with me: but I must confess to you that I made more haste out than I did in, when looking farther into the place, and which was perfectly dark, I saw two broad shining eyes of some creature, whether devil or man I knew not, which twinkled like two stars; the dim light from the cave’s mouth shining directly in, and making the reflection.
Mientras estaba cortando madera, advertí una especie de cavidad detrás de una rama muy gruesa de un arbusto y sentí curiosidad por mirar en el interior. Cuando llegué a la entrada, no sin mucha dificultad, vi que era muy amplia, es decir, que cabía de pie y, tal vez, con otra persona.