We must travel through the swamp where a Soyot will be behind every mound watching us." He seemed really very anxious and his trouble fortunately prevented him from paying much attention to us.

I began to calm him and promised on the morrow to arrange this matter with the Soyots.

The officer was a coarse brute and a silly man, desiring strongly to be promoted for the capture of the Cossack officers, and feared that the Soyot could prevent him from reaching the Seybi.
At daybreak we started together with the Red detachment.

When we had made about fifteen kilometers, we discovered behind the bushes two riders.

They were Soyots.