However, after some pause I recovered myself, and began to call myself a thousand fools, and to think that he that was afraid to see the devil was not fit to live twenty years in an island all alone; and that I might well think there was nothing in this cave that was more frightful than myself.
Pero debo confesar que salí con más prisa de la que había entrado, pues al mirar al fondo, que estaba totalmente oscuro, divisé dos grandes ojos brillantes. No sabía si eran de diablo o de hombre pero parpadeaban como dos estrellas con la tenue luz que se filtraba por la entrada de la cueva.