translation.ca: Totes les noves no feien sinó dir que havíen estat escorcollades llunyanies de la caverna mai visitades abans; que tot recó i clivella seria completament examinat; que, onsevulla que hom anés a raure, en aquell laberint de passadissos, hom veia llums que voleiaven d'ací d'allí en la distancia, i que cridoria i trets de pistola enviaven a la oida llurs baumades reverberacions per avall de les naus ombrívoles.
translation.en: All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.