Lindsay, Dr. genu, and my brother, participated in my resolution of verifying whether or not there was any semblance of truth in what the Indians related concerning that grotto; or if, as I had so often experienced it myself, their poetic minds did not create what had never existed.
"Adventures in the Philippine Islands"
Paul P. de La Gironière
Dr. genu, who till then had kept a profound silence, on hearing of our resolution was suddenly seized with such a panic fear that he recovered his voice, imploring and begging of us to take him out of the cavern; and, as if he had been suddenly seized with a sort of vertigo, he told us, with interrupted accents, that he could not breathe-that he felt himself as if he were smothering-that his heart was beating so violently, were he to stay any longer amidst the dangers we were running he was certain of dying from the effects of a rupture of the heart.
"Adventures in the Philippine Islands"
Paul P. de La Gironière
We could hope for no help from without, even from our friend genu, who, as we had witnessed, had been so upset by fear; so that, rather than suffer the anguish and die the death of the wretch buried alive in a sepulchre, our poignards must have been our last resource.
"Adventures in the Philippine Islands"
Paul P. de La Gironière