They did so, and placed themselves on a rising ground from which the two droves that Don Quixote made armies of might have been plainly seen if the clouds of dust they raised had not obscured them and blinded the sight; nevertheless, seeing in his imagination what he did not see and what did not exist, he began thus in a loud voice:
Hiciéronlo ansí, y pusierónse sobre una loma, desde la cual se vieran bien las dos manadas que a don Quijote se le hicieron ejército, si las nubes del polvo que levantaban no les turbara y cegara la vista; pero, con todo esto, viendo en su imaginación lo que no veía ni había, con voz levantada comenzó a decir: