This question baffled me, since Commander Farragut would certainly have shown no such hesitation. He would have seen it as his sworn duty to destroy a contrivance of this kind just as promptly as a gigantic narwhale.
Su pregunta me dejó turbado, pues con toda certeza el comandante Farragut no hubiese dudado en hacerlo, creyendo deber suyo destruir un aparato de ese género, al mismo título que un narval gigantesco.