"To take the city, by scaling its walls, or undermining them as the foreign engineers do, is not proper, not Cossack fashion.

But, judging from appearances, the enemy entered the city without many provisions; they had not many waggons with them.

The people in the city are hungry; they will all eat heartily, and the horses will soon devour the hay.

I don't know whether their saints will fling them down anything from heaven with hayforks; God only knows that though there are a great many Catholic priests among them.

By one means or another the people will seek to leave the city.
Divide yourselves, therefore, into three divisions, and take up your posts before the three gates; five kurens before the principal gate, and three kurens before each of the others.