Then we bestrode our steeds and with his last adieu M. Fridrikssen treated me to a line of Virgil eminently applicable to such uncertain wanderers as we were likely to be:
Montamos a caballo, y el señor Fridriksson me espetó con su último adiós este verso de Virgilio, que parecía hecho expresamente para nosotros, pobres viajeros que mirábamos con incertidumbre el camino: