But, while I was considering this, there came in four French gentlemen, who, having been stopped on the French side of the passes, as we were on the Spanish, had found out a guide, who, traversing the country near the head of Languedoc, had brought them over the mountains by such ways that they were not much incommoded with the snow; for where they met with snow in any quantity, they said it was frozen hard enough to bear them and their horses.
Mas, mientras deliberábamos sobre esta posibilidad, llegaron cuatro caballeros franceses que se habían visto obligados a detenerse en el lado francés, como nos había ocurrido a nosotros en el lado español. En el camino, habían dado con un guía, con el que, atravesando la región cercana a Languedoc, habían cruzado las montañas por senderos en los que la nieve no resultaba demasiado incómoda.