It was dark when our investigators returned and reported to us that about thirty Partisans had a camp some ten kilometers from us, occupying the yurtas of the Soyots.

At the pass were two outposts, one of two soldiers and the other of three.

From the outposts to the camp was a little over a mile.

Our trail lay between the two outposts.

From the top of the mountain one could plainly see the two posts and could shoot them all.
When we had come near to the top of this mountain, I left our party and, taking with me my friend, the Tartar, the Kalmuck and two of the young officers, advanced.