Only three kuren hetmans still remained alive.

Red blood flowed in streams everywhere; heaps of their bodies and of those of the enemy were piled high.

Taras looked up to heaven, and there already hovered a flock of vultures.

Well, there would be prey for some one.

And there the foe were raising Metelitza on their lances, and the head of the second Pisarenko was dizzily opening and shutting its eyes; and the mangled body of Okhrim Guska fell upon the ground.