They were about to proceed against him as a sorcerer, when the dervish with great calmness thus addressed the court:
于是，这两个商人准备以施巫术为罪名起诉他，但是僧侣在法庭上表现得特别冷静。
—"I have been much amused with your surprise, and own that there has been some ground for your suspicions;
他说：“我被你们这么惊讶给逗乐了，当然，你们的怀疑也有点道理。
but I have lived long and alone, and I can find ample scope for observation even in a desert.
不过，我已经一个人生活了很长时间，即使在沙漠里，我也能仔细观察出许多蛛丝马迹。
I knew that I had crossed the track of a camel that had strayed from its owner,
我知道我曾经经过了一头骆驼留下的痕迹，而那头骆驼跟主人分开了，
because I saw no mark of any human footstep on the same route.
原因是我没在同样的路线上发现人类的脚印或类似的痕迹。
I knew that the animal was blind of an eye, because it had cropped the herbage only on one side of its path;
我知道它瞎了一只眼睛，因为它只吃路边一侧的植物。

and that it was lame in one leg, from the faint impression which that particular foot had produced upon the sand.
我发现它跛一只脚，是因为在沙地上很容易辨认出一边脚有点虚弱的痕迹。
I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because, whe上rever it had grazed,
我推断出这头动物少了一颗牙齿，是因为不管它咬什么东西，
a small tuft of herbage had been left uninjured in the centre of its bite.
叶子中间总有一小片留在被它咬过的枝头上。
As to that which formed the burthen of the beast, the busy ants informed me that it was corn on the one side;
至于我怎么样看出来它驮了什么，是因为地上繁忙的蚂蚁告诉我一边是谷物，
and the clustering flies, that it was honey on the other."
而成群飞来的苍蝇则证明另一边是蜂蜜。”
—Colton
—科尔顿