So there was I, standing at the bottom27 of ten-foot-deep pit, with no light and no shoe on one foot, surrounded28 by seven or eight deadly Gaboon snakes.

• 于是我就呆呆地站在10英尺深的坑里，没有灯光，一只脚上没着鞋子，四周环绕着大概7到8条加蓬蝰蛇。