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21300 | {
"en": "Thirdly, there was the Prior of St. Augustine’s account, who had received the profits for above fourteen years; but not being able to account for what was disposed of by the hospital, very honestly declared he had eight hundred and seventy-two moidores not distributed, which he acknowledged to my account: as... |
21301 | {
"en": "There was a letter of my partner’s, congratulating me very affectionately upon my being alive, giving me an account how the estate was improved, and what it produced a year; with the particulars of the number of squares, or acres that it contained, how planted, how many slaves there were upon it: and making ... |
21302 | {
"en": "By the same fleet my two merchant-trustees shipped me one thousand two hundred chests of sugar, eight hundred rolls of tobacco, and the rest of the whole account in gold.",
"fr": "Il m'adressait aussi cinq caisses d'excellentes confitures, et une centaine de pièces d'or non monnayées, pas tout-à-fait si gr... |
21303 | {
"en": "I might well say now, indeed, that the latter end of Job was better than the beginning.",
"fr": "Je pouvais bien dire alors avec vérité que la fin de Job était meilleure que le commencement."
} |
21304 | {
"en": "It is impossible to express the flutterings of my very heart when I found all my wealth about me; for as the Brazil ships come all in fleets, the same ships which brought my letters brought my goods: and the effects were safe in the river before the letters came to my hand.",
"fr": "Il serait impossible d'... |
21305 | {
"en": "In a word, I turned pale, and grew sick; and, had not the old man run and fetched me a cordial, I believe the sudden surprise of joy had overset nature, and I had died upon the spot: nay, after that I continued very ill, and was so some hours, till a physician being sent for, and something of the real cause ... |
21306 | {
"en": "I was now master, all on a sudden, of above five thousand pounds sterling in money, and had an estate, as I might well call it, in the Brazils, of above a thousand pounds a year, as sure as an estate of lands in England: and, in a word, I was in a condition which I scarce knew how to understand, or how to co... |
21307 | {
"en": "The first thing I did was to recompense my original benefactor, my good old captain, who had been first charitable to me in my distress, kind to me in my beginning, and honest to me at the end.",
"fr": "Avant toutes choses, ce que je fis, ce fut de récompenser mon premier bienfaiteur, mon bon vieux capitai... |
21308 | {
"en": "I showed him all that was sent to me; I told him that, next to the providence of Heaven, which disposed all things, it was owing to him; and that it now lay on me to reward him, which I would do a hundred-fold: so I first returned to him the hundred moidores I had received of him; then I sent for a notary, a... |
21309 | {
"en": "After which I caused a procuration to be drawn, empowering him to be the receiver of the annual profits of my plantation: and appointing my partner to account with him, and make the returns, by the usual fleets, to him in my name; and by a clause in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidores a year to him... |
21310 | {
"en": "I had now to consider which way to steer my course next, and what to do with the estate that Providence had thus put into my hands; and, indeed, I had more care upon my head now than I had in my state of life in the island where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted; whereas I ha... |
21311 | {
"en": "I had not a cave now to hide my money in, or a place where it might lie without lock or key, till it grew mouldy and tarnished before anybody would meddle with it; on the contrary, I knew not where to put it, or whom to trust with it.",
"fr": "Je n'avais plus de caverne pour y cacher mon trésor, ni de lieu... |
21312 | {
"en": "My old patron, the captain, indeed, was honest, and that was the only refuge I had.",
"fr": "Mon vieux patron, le capitaine, était, il est vrai, un homme intègre: ce fut lui mon seul refuge."
} |
21313 | {
"en": "In the next place, my interest in the Brazils seemed to summon me thither; but now I could not tell how to think of going thither till I had settled my affairs, and left my effects in some safe hands behind me.",
"fr": "Secondement, mon intérêt semblait m'appeler au Brésil; mais je ne pouvais songer à y al... |
21314 | {
"en": "At first I thought of my old friend the widow, who I knew was honest, and would be just to me; but then she was in years, and but poor, and, for aught I knew, might be in debt: so that, in a word, I had no way but to go back to England myself and take my effects with me.",
"fr": "Je pensai d'abord à ma vie... |
21315 | {
"en": "It was some months, however, before I resolved upon this; and, therefore, as I had rewarded the old captain fully, and to his satisfaction, who had been my former benefactor, so I began to think of the poor widow, whose husband had been my first benefactor, and she, while it was in her power, my faithful ste... |
21316 | {
"en": "So, the first thing I did, I got a merchant in Lisbon to write to his correspondent in London, not only to pay a bill, but to go find her out, and carry her, in money, a hundred pounds from me, and to talk with her, and comfort her in her poverty, by telling her she should, if I lived, have a further supply:... |
21317 | {
"en": "But among all my relations or acquaintances I could not yet pitch upon one to whom I durst commit the gross of my stock, that I might go away to the Brazils, and leave things safe behind me; and this greatly perplexed me.",
"fr": "Mais parmi touts mes parents en connaissances, je ne pouvais faire choix de ... |
21318 | {
"en": "I had once a mind to have gone to the Brazils and have settled myself there, for I was, as it were, naturalised to the place; but I had some little scruple in my mind about religion, which insensibly drew me back. However, it was not religion that kept me from going there for the present; and as I had made n... |
21319 | {
"en": "But, as I have said, this was not the main thing that kept me from going to the Brazils, but that really I did not know with whom to leave my effects behind me; so I resolved at last to go to England, where, if I arrived, I concluded that I should make some acquaintance, or find some relations, that would be... |
21320 | {
"en": "In order to prepare things for my going home, I first (the Brazil fleet being just going away) resolved to give answers suitable to the just and faithful account of things I had from thence; and, first, to the Prior of St. Augustine I wrote a letter full of thanks for his just dealings, and the offer of the ... |
21321 | {
"en": "I wrote next a letter of thanks to my two trustees, with all the acknowledgment that so much justice and honesty called for: as for sending them any present, they were far above having any occasion of it.",
"fr": "J'écrivis ensuite une lettre d'action de grâces à mes deux curateurs, avec toute la reconnais... |
21322 | {
"en": "Lastly, I wrote to my partner, acknowledging his industry in the improving the plantation, and his integrity in increasing the stock of the works; giving him instructions for his future government of my part, according to the powers I had left with my old patron, to whom I desired him to send whatever became... |
21323 | {
"en": "To this I added a very handsome present of some Italian silks for his wife and two daughters, for such the captain’s son informed me he had; with two pieces of fine English broadcloth, the best I could get in Lisbon, five pieces of black baize, and some Flanders lace of a good value.",
"fr": "À cela j'ajou... |
21324 | {
"en": "Having thus settled my affairs, sold my cargo, and turned all my effects into good bills of exchange, my next difficulty was which way to go to England: I had been accustomed enough to the sea, and yet I had a strange aversion to go to England by the sea at that time, and yet I could give no reason for it, y... |
21325 | {
"en": "It is true I had been very unfortunate by sea, and this might be one of the reasons; but let no man slight the strong impulses of his own thoughts in cases of such moment: two of the ships which I had singled out to go in, I mean more particularly singled out than any other, having put my things on board one... |
21326 | {
"en": "One was taken by the Algerines, and the other was lost on the Start, near Torbay, and all the people drowned except three; so that in either of those vessels I had been made miserable.",
"fr": "Ainsi dans l'un ou l'autre de ces vaisseaux j'eusse trouvé le malheur. Et dans lequel le plus grand?"
} |
21327 | {
"en": "Having been thus harassed in my thoughts, my old pilot, to whom I communicated everything, pressed me earnestly not to go by sea, but either to go by land to the Groyne, and cross over the Bay of Biscay to Rochelle, from whence it was but an easy and safe journey by land to Paris, and so to Calais and Dover;... |
21328 | {
"en": "In a word, I was so prepossessed against my going by sea at all, except from Calais to Dover, that I resolved to travel all the way by land; which, as I was not in haste, and did not value the charge, was by much the pleasanter way: and to make it more so, my old captain brought an English gentleman, the son... |
21329 | {
"en": "In this manner I set out from Lisbon; and our company being very well mounted and armed, we made a little troop, whereof they did me the honour to call me captain, as well because I was the oldest man, as because I had two servants, and, indeed, was the origin of the whole journey.",
"fr": "Nous partîmes a... |
21330 | {
"en": "As I have troubled you with none of my sea journals, so I shall trouble you now with none of my land journals; but some adventures that happened to us in this tedious and difficult journey I must not omit.",
"fr": "Comme je ne vous ai point ennuyé de mes journaux de mer, je ne vous fatiguerai point de mes ... |
21331 | {
"en": "When we came to Madrid, we, being all of us strangers to Spain, were willing to stay some time to see the court of Spain, and what was worth observing; but it being the latter part of the summer, we hastened away, and set out from Madrid about the middle of October; but when we came to the edge of Navarre, w... |
21332 | {
"en": "When we came to Pampeluna itself, we found it so indeed; and to me, that had been always used to a hot climate, and to countries where I could scarce bear any clothes on, the cold was insufferable; nor, indeed, was it more painful than surprising to come but ten days before out of Old Castile, where the weat... |
21333 | {
"en": "Poor Friday was really frightened when he saw the mountains all covered with snow, and felt cold weather, which he had never seen or felt before in his life.",
"fr": "Le pauvre VENDREDI fut réellement effrayé quand il vit ces montagnes toutes couvertes de neige et qu'il sentit le froid de l'air, choses qu'... |
21334 | {
"en": "To mend the matter, when we came to Pampeluna it continued snowing with so much violence and so long, that the people said winter was come before its time; and the roads, which were difficult before, were now quite impassable; for, in a word, the snow lay in some places too thick for us to travel, and being ... |
21335 | {
"en": "We stayed no less than twenty days at Pampeluna; when (seeing the winter coming on, and no likelihood of its being better, for it was the severest winter all over Europe that had been known in the memory of man) I proposed that we should go away to Fontarabia, and there take shipping for Bordeaux, which was ... |
21336 | {
"en": "But, while I was considering this, there came in four French gentlemen, who, having been stopped on the French side of the passes, as we were on the Spanish, had found out a guide, who, traversing the country near the head of Languedoc, had brought them over the mountains by such ways that they were not much... |
21337 | {
"en": "We sent for this guide, who told us he would undertake to carry us the same way, with no hazard from the snow, provided we were armed sufficiently to protect ourselves from wild beasts; for, he said, in these great snows it was frequent for some wolves to show themselves at the foot of the mountains, being m... |
21338 | {
"en": "He satisfied us that there was no danger of that kind in the way that we were to go; so we readily agreed to follow him, as did also twelve other gentlemen with their servants, some French, some Spanish, who, as I said, had attempted to go, and were obliged to come back again.",
"fr": "Nous consentîmes don... |
21339 | {
"en": "Accordingly, we set out from Pampeluna with our guide on the 15th of November; and indeed I was surprised when, instead of going forward, he came directly back with us on the same road that we came from Madrid, about twenty miles; when, having passed two rivers, and come into the plain country, we found ours... |
21340 | {
"en": "We were a little uneasy, however, when we found it snowed one whole day and a night so fast that we could not travel; but he bid us be easy; we should soon be past it all: we found, indeed, that we began to descend every day, and to come more north than before; and so, depending upon our guide, we went on.",... |
21341 | {
"en": "It was about two hours before night when, our guide being something before us, and not just in sight, out rushed three monstrous wolves, and after them a bear, from a hollow way adjoining to a thick wood; two of the wolves made at the guide, and had he been far before us, he would have been devoured before w... |
21342 | {
"en": "My man Friday being next me, I bade him ride up and see what was the matter.",
"fr": "L'un de ces animaux s'agrippa au cheval, et l'autre attaqua l'homme avec tant de violence, qu'il n'eut pas le temps ou la présence d'esprit de s'armer de son pistolet, mais il se prit à crier et à nous appeler de toute sa... |
21343 | {
"en": "As soon as Friday came in sight of the man, he hallooed out as loud as the other, “O master!",
"fr": "J'ordonnai à mon serviteur VENDREDI, qui était près de moi, d'aller à toute bride voir ce qui se passait."
} |
21344 | {
"en": "O master!” but like a bold fellow, rode directly up to the poor man, and with his pistol shot the wolf in the head that attacked him.",
"fr": "Dès qu'il fut à portée de vue du guide il se mit à crier aussi fort que lui:--«O maître! O maître!»--Mais, comme un hardi compagnon, il galopa droit au pauvre homme... |
21345 | {
"en": "It was happy for the poor man that it was my man Friday; for, having been used to such creatures in his country, he had no fear upon him, but went close up to him and shot him; whereas, any other of us would have fired at a farther distance, and have perhaps either missed the wolf or endangered shooting the ... |
21346 | {
"en": "But it was enough to have terrified a bolder man than I; and, indeed, it alarmed all our company, when, with the noise of Friday’s pistol, we heard on both sides the most dismal howling of wolves; and the noise, redoubled by the echo of the mountains, appeared to us as if there had been a prodigious number o... |
21347 | {
"en": "But the man was most hurt; for the raging creature had bit him twice, once in the arm, and the other time a little above his knee; and though he had made some defence, he was just tumbling down by the disorder of his horse, when Friday came up and shot the wolf.",
"fr": "Fort heureusement, comme il l'avait... |
21348 | {
"en": "It is easy to suppose that at the noise of Friday’s pistol we all mended our pace, and rode up as fast as the way, which was very difficult, would give us leave, to see what was the matter.",
"fr": "On imaginera facilement qu'au bruit du pistolet de VENDREDI nous forçâmes touts notre pas et galopâmes aussi... |
21349 | {
"en": "As soon as we came clear of the trees, which blinded us before, we saw clearly what had been the case, and how Friday had disengaged the poor guide, though we did not presently discern what kind of creature it was he had killed.",
"fr": "Sitôt que nous eûmes passé les arbres qui nous offusquaient, nous vîm... |
21350 | {
"en": "But never was a fight managed so hardily, and in such a surprising manner as that which followed between Friday and the bear, which gave us all, though at first we were surprised and afraid for him, the greatest diversion imaginable.",
"fr": "Si vous le rencontrez dans les bois, et que vous ne vous mêliez ... |
21351 | {
"en": "As the bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does, who is swift and light, so he has two particular qualities, which generally are the rule of his actions; first, as to men, who are not his proper prey (he does not usually attempt them, except they first attack him, unless he be e... |
21352 | {
"en": "My man Friday had delivered our guide, and when we came up to him he was helping him off his horse, for the man was both hurt and frightened, when on a sudden we espied the bear come out of the wood; and a monstrous one it was, the biggest by far that ever I saw.",
"fr": "Mon serviteur VENDREDI, lorsque no... |
21353 | {
"en": "We were all a little surprised when we saw him; but when Friday saw him, it was easy to see joy and courage in the fellow’s countenance. “O!",
"fr": "À son aspect nous fûmes touts un peu surpris; mais nous démêlâmes aisément du courage et de la joie dans la contenance de VENDREDI.--«O!"
} |
21354 | {
"en": "O!",
"fr": "O!"
} |
21355 | {
"en": "O!” says Friday, three times, pointing to him; “O master, you give me te leave, me shakee te hand with him; me makee you good laugh.” I was surprised to see the fellow so well pleased.",
"fr": "O! s'écria-t-il trois fois, en le montrant du doigt, O maître! vous me donner congé, moi donner une poignée de ma... |
21356 | {
"en": "“You fool,” says I, “he will eat you up.”—“Eatee me up! eatee me up!” says Friday, twice over again; “me eatee him up; me makee you good laugh; you all stay here, me show you good laugh.”",
"fr": "VENDREDI MONTRE À DANSER À L'OURS Je fus étonné de voir ce garçon si transporté.--«Tu es fou, lui dis-je, il t... |
21357 | {
"en": "So down he sits, and gets off his boots in a moment, and puts on a pair of pumps (as we call the flat shoes they wear, and which he had in his pocket), gives my other servant his horse, and with his gun away he flew, swift like the wind.",
"fr": "Moi dévorer lui, moi faire vous bon rire; vous touts rester ... |
21358 | {
"en": "The bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody, till Friday coming pretty near, calls to him, as if the bear could understand him. “Hark ye, hark ye,” says Friday, “me speakee with you.”",
"fr": "L'ours se promenait tout doucement, sans songer à troubler personne, jusqu'à ce que VENDREDI... |
21359 | {
"en": "We followed at a distance, for now being down on the Gascony side of the mountains, we were entered a vast forest, where the country was plain and pretty open, though it had many trees in it scattered here and there.",
"fr": "VENDREDI, qui était comme nous l'avons dit sur les talons de l'ours, le joignit p... |
21360 | {
"en": "Friday, who had, as we say, the heels of the bear, came up with him quickly, and took up a great stone, and threw it at him, and hit him just on the head, but did him no more harm than if he had thrown it against a wall; but it answered Friday’s end, for the rogue was so void of fear that he did it purely to... |
21361 | {
"en": "As soon as the bear felt the blow, and saw him, he turns about and comes after him, taking very long strides, and shuffling on at a strange rate, so as would have put a horse to a middling gallop; away reins Friday, and takes his course as if he ran towards us for help; so we all resolved to fire at once upo... |
21362 | {
"en": "Come away, and take your horse, that we may shoot the creature.”",
"fr": "J'étais surtout en colère de ce qu'il l'avait détournée et puis avait pris la fuite. Je l'appelai: «--Chien, lui dis-je, est-ce là nous faire rire?"
} |
21363 | {
"en": "He heard me, and cried out, “No shoot, no shoot; stand still, and you get much laugh:” and as the nimble creature ran two feet for the bear’s one, he turned on a sudden on one side of us, and seeing a great oak-tree fit for his purpose, he beckoned to us to follow; and doubling his pace, he got nimbly up the... |
21364 | {
"en": "The bear soon came to the tree, and we followed at a distance: the first thing he did he stopped at the gun, smelt at it, but let it lie, and up he scrambles into the tree, climbing like a cat, though so monstrous heavy.",
"fr": "Nous le suivions à distance. Son premier soin fut de s'arrêter au fusil et de... |
21365 | {
"en": "I was amazed at the folly, as I thought it, of my man, and could not for my life see anything to laugh at, till seeing the bear get up the tree, we all rode near to him.",
"fr": "J'étais étonné de la folie de mon serviteur, car j'envisageais cela comme tel; et, sur ma vie, je ne trouvais là-dedans rien enc... |
21366 | {
"en": "When we came to the tree, there was Friday got out to the small end of a large branch, and the bear got about half-way to him.",
"fr": "Quand nous arrivâmes, VENDREDI avait déjà gagné l'extrémité d'une grosse branche, et l'ours avait fait la moitié du chemin pour l'atteindre."
} |
21367 | {
"en": "As soon as the bear got out to that part where the limb of the tree was weaker, “Ha!” says he to us, “now you see me teachee the bear dance:” so he began jumping and shaking the bough, at which the bear began to totter, but stood still, and began to look behind him, to see how he should get back; then, indee... |
21368 | {
"en": "But Friday had not done with him by a great deal; when seeing him stand still, he called out to him again, as if he had supposed the bear could speak English, “What, you come no farther? pray you come farther;” so he left jumping and shaking the tree; and the bear, just as if he understood what he said, did ... |
21369 | {
"en": "We thought now was a good time to knock him in the head, and called to Friday to stand still and we should shoot the bear: but he cried out earnestly, “Oh, pray!",
"fr": "Alors VENDREDI se reprit à sauter, et l'ours s'arrêta encore. Nous pensâmes alors que c'était un bon moment pour le frapper à la tête, e... |
21370 | {
"en": "Oh, pray! no shoot, me shoot by and then:” he would have said by-and-by.",
"fr": "O prie! pas tirer; moi tirer près et alors.»--Il voulait dire tout-à-l'heure. Cependant, pour abréger l'histoire, VENDREDI dansait tellement et l'ours se posait d'une façon si grotesque, que vraiment nous pâmions de rire."
} |
21371 | {
"en": "However, to shorten the story, Friday danced so much, and the bear stood so ticklish, that we had laughing enough, but still could not imagine what the fellow would do: for first we thought he depended upon shaking the bear off; and we found the bear was too cunning for that too; for he would not go out far ... |
21372 | {
"en": "But Friday put us out of doubt quickly: for seeing the bear cling fast to the bough, and that he would not be persuaded to come any farther, “Well, well,” says Friday, “you no come farther, me go; you no come to me, me come to you;” and upon this he went out to the smaller end, where it would bend with his w... |
21373 | {
"en": "Why don’t you shoot him?” “No shoot,” says Friday, “no yet; me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh:” and, indeed, so he did; for when the bear saw his enemy gone, he came back from the bough, where he stood, but did it very cautiously, looking behind him every step, and coming backward ti... |
21374 | {
"en": "At this juncture, and just before he could set his hind foot on the ground, Friday stepped up close to him, clapped the muzzle of his piece into his ear, and shot him dead.",
"fr": "Alors, toujours l'arrière-train en avant, il descendit, s'agrippant au tronc avec ses griffes et ne remuant qu'une patte à la... |
21375 | {
"en": "Then the rogue turned about to see if we did not laugh; and when he saw we were pleased by our looks, he began to laugh very loud.",
"fr": "Juste à l'instant où il allait appuyer sa patte de derrière sur le sol, VENDREDI s'avança sur lui, et, lui appliquant le canon de son fusil dans l'oreille, il le fit t... |
21376 | {
"en": "“So we kill bear in my country,” says Friday. “So you kill them?” says I; “why, you have no guns.”—“No,” says he, “no gun, but shoot great much long arrow.”",
"fr": "Alors le maraud se retourna pour voir si nous n'étions pas à rire; et quand il lut sur nos visages que nous étions fort satisfaits, il poussa... |
21377 | {
"en": "This was a good diversion to us; but we were still in a wild place, and our guide very much hurt, and what to do we hardly knew; the howling of wolves ran much in my head; and, indeed, except the noise I once heard on the shore of Africa, of which I have said something already, I never heard anything that fi... |
21378 | {
"en": "These things, and the approach of night, called us off, or else, as Friday would have had us, we should certainly have taken the skin of this monstrous creature off, which was worth saving; but we had near three leagues to go, and our guide hastened us; so we left him, and went forward on our journey.",
"f... |
21379 | {
"en": "The ground was still covered with snow, though not so deep and dangerous as on the mountains; and the ravenous creatures, as we heard afterwards, were come down into the forest and plain country, pressed by hunger, to seek for food, and had done a great deal of mischief in the villages, where they surprised ... |
21380 | {
"en": "We had one dangerous place to pass, and our guide told us if there were more wolves in the country we should find them there; and this was a small plain, surrounded with woods on every side, and a long, narrow defile, or lane, which we were to pass to get through the wood, and then we should come to the vill... |
21381 | {
"en": "It was within half-an-hour of sunset when we entered the wood, and a little after sunset when we came into the plain: we met with nothing in the first wood, except that in a little plain within the wood, which was not above two furlongs over, we saw five great wolves cross the road, full speed, one after ano... |
21382 | {
"en": "Upon this, our guide, who, by the way, was but a fainthearted fellow, bid us keep in a ready posture, for he believed there were more wolves a-coming.",
"fr": "Là-dessus notre guide, qui, soit dit en passant, était un misérable poltron, nous recommanda de nous mettre en défense; il croyait que beaucoup d'a... |
21383 | {
"en": "We kept our arms ready, and our eyes about us; but we saw no more wolves till we came through that wood, which was near half a league, and entered the plain.",
"fr": "Nous tînmes nos armes prêtes et l'œil au guet; mais nous ne vîmes plus de loups jusqu'à ce que nous eûmes pénétré dans la plaine après avoir... |
21384 | {
"en": "As soon as we came into the plain, we had occasion enough to look about us.",
"fr": "Aussitôt que nous y fûmes arrivés, nous ne chômâmes pas d'occasion de regarder autour de nous."
} |
21385 | {
"en": "The first object we met with was a dead horse; that is to say, a poor horse which the wolves had killed, and at least a dozen of them at work, we could not say eating him, but picking his bones rather; for they had eaten up all the flesh before.",
"fr": "Le premier objet qui nous frappa ce fut un cheval mo... |
21386 | {
"en": "We did not think fit to disturb them at their feast, neither did they take much notice of us.",
"fr": "Nous ne jugeâmes point à propos de troubler leur festin, et ils ne prirent pas garde à nous."
} |
21387 | {
"en": "Friday would have let fly at them, but I would not suffer him by any means; for I found we were like to have more business upon our hands than we were aware of.",
"fr": "VENDREDI aurait bien voulu tirer sur eux, mais je m'y opposai formellement, prévoyant que nous aurions sur les bras plus d'affaires sembl... |
21388 | {
"en": "We had not gone half over the plain when we began to hear the wolves howl in the wood on our left in a frightful manner, and presently after we saw about a hundred coming on directly towards us, all in a body, and most of them in a line, as regularly as an army drawn up by experienced officers.",
"fr": "--... |
21389 | {
"en": "I scarce knew in what manner to receive them, but found to draw ourselves in a close line was the only way; so we formed in a moment; but that we might not have too much interval, I ordered that only every other man should fire, and that the others, who had not fired, should stand ready to give them a second... |
21390 | {
"en": "Four of them being shot in the head, dropped; several others were wounded, and went bleeding off, as we could see by the snow.",
"fr": "Néanmoins, pour le moment, il n'y eut pas nécessité: à la première décharge les ennemis firent halte, épouvantés, stupéfiés du bruit autant que du feu. Quatre d'entre eux,... |
21391 | {
"en": "I found they stopped, but did not immediately retreat; whereupon, remembering that I had been told that the fiercest creatures were terrified at the voice of a man, I caused all the company to halloo as loud as they could; and I found the notion not altogether mistaken; for upon our shout they began to retir... |
21392 | {
"en": "I then ordered a second volley to be fired in their rear, which put them to the gallop, and away they went to the woods.",
"fr": "Sur le coup j'ordonnai de saluer leur arrière-garde d'une seconde décharge, qui leur fit prendre le galop, et ils s'enfuirent dans les bois."
} |
21393 | {
"en": "This gave us leisure to charge our pieces again; and that we might lose no time, we kept going; but we had but little more than loaded our fusees, and put ourselves in readiness, when we heard a terrible noise in the same wood on our left, only that it was farther onward, the same way we were to go.",
"fr"... |
21394 | {
"en": "The night was coming on, and the light began to be dusky, which made it worse on our side; but the noise increasing, we could easily perceive that it was the howling and yelling of those hellish creatures; and on a sudden we perceived three troops of wolves, one on our left, one behind us, and one in our fro... |
21395 | {
"en": "In this manner, we came in view of the entrance of a wood, through which we were to pass, at the farther side of the plain; but we were greatly surprised, when coming nearer the lane or pass, we saw a confused number of wolves standing just at the entrance.",
"fr": "Néanmoins, comme elles ne nous assaillai... |
21396 | {
"en": "On a sudden, at another opening of the wood, we heard the noise of a gun, and looking that way, out rushed a horse, with a saddle and a bridle on him, flying like the wind, and sixteen or seventeen wolves after him, full speed: the horse had the advantage of them; but as we supposed that he could not hold it... |
21397 | {
"en": "But here we had a most horrible sight; for riding up to the entrance where the horse came out, we found the carcasses of another horse and of two men, devoured by the ravenous creatures; and one of the men was no doubt the same whom we heard fire the gun, for there lay a gun just by him fired off; but as to ... |
21398 | {
"en": "This filled us with horror, and we knew not what course to take; but the creatures resolved us soon, for they gathered about us presently, in hopes of prey; and I verily believe there were three hundred of them.",
"fr": "Sa tête et la partie supérieure de son corps étaient rongées. Cette vue nous remplit d... |
21399 | {
"en": "It happened, very much to our advantage, that at the entrance into the wood, but a little way from it, there lay some large timber-trees, which had been cut down the summer before, and I suppose lay there for carriage.",
"fr": "Sur l'honneur, il y en avait bien trois cents!--Il se trouvait, fort heureuseme... |
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