The more I thought of it the more I realized that any hole in the ground that could house such a gigantic army of bats must be a whale of a big cave .

VOA: special.2009.12.07

The palmer accompanies him on all of his adventures but this one, and Spenser in stanza two of this canto makes a big deal of the fact that Guyon is descending in to the Cave of Mammon by himself.

朝圣者陪着他经历了除了这里之外的所有冒险，斯潘塞在这篇长诗的第二节对这一事件大做文章,他想表达盖恩是独自一人进入贪婪之神的洞穴的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The more I thought of it the more I realized that any hole in the ground that could house such a gigantic army of bats must be a whale of a big cave ...

VOA: special.2011.04.11

Here is a reading of his description of his first sight of the bats and the big cave: "I thought it was a volcano, but then,I'd never seen a volcano nor never before had I seen bats swarm, for that matter.

VOA: special.2009.12.07