The next morning our guide was so ill, and his limbs swelled so much with the rankling of his two wounds, that he could go no farther; so we were obliged to take a new guide here, and go to Toulouse, where we found a warm climate, a fruitful, pleasant country, and no snow, no wolves, nor anything like them; but when we told our story at Toulouse, they told us it was nothing but what was ordinary in the great forest at the foot of the mountains, especially when the snow lay on the ground; but they inquired much what kind of guide we had got who would venture to bring us that way in such a severe season, and told us it was surprising we were not all devoured.
Nos preguntaron qué clase de guía habíamos contratado que se había atrevido a llevarnos por un camino tan peligroso, sobre todo, en aquella época del año y nos dijeron que debíamos sentirnos muy afortunados de que no nos hubiesen devorado. Cuando les dijimos la forma en que nos habíamos atrincherado con los caballos en el centro, nos criticaron severamente y nos dijeron que las probabilidades de haber sido destruidos por los lobos eran de cincuenta contra una, puesto que su furia había sido incitada por la presencia de los caballos, que eran su presa más codiciada.