My principal endeavour was to learn the language, which my master (for so I shall henceforth call him), and his children, and every servant of his house, were desirous to teach me; for they looked upon it as a prodigy, that a brute animal should discover such marks of a rational creature.
Nire kezka nagusia hizkuntza ikastea zen, nire ugazaba (horrela deituko dut aurrerantzean), bere seme-alabak eta etxeko zerbitzari guztiak gogoz zeudelarik irakasteko. Zeren eta, miragarria iruditzen baitzitzaien adimengabeko animalia batek izaki arrazionalaren halako zantzuak agertzea.