On the night before his departure, the intrepid horseman recalled that suddenly the carping of his critics and his own inexperience caused him "to be assailed by a sickly feeling, as if my stomach were a vacuum."
La noche anterior a su partida, el intrépido jinete de pronto se acordó de la desaprobación de los críticos y su propia inexperiencia le provocaban "una sensación de malestar, como si el estómago estuviera vacío."