Half the boats were crushed and overturned, drowning more than one; but the bundles of reeds bound to the sides, Cossack fashion, saved the boats from completely sinking.

Balaban rowed off at full speed, and steered straight in the face of the sun, thus rendering himself invisible to the Turkish ships.

All the following night they spent in baling out the water with pails and their caps, and in repairing the damaged places.

They made sails out of their Cossack trousers, and, sailing off, escaped from the fastest Turkish vessels.

And not only did they arrive unharmed at the Setch, but they brought a gold-embroidered vesture for the archimandrite at the Mezhigorsky Monastery in Kief, and an ikon frame of pure silver for the church in honour of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is in Zaporozhe.