He had on a pair of blue trousers, a shirt, and a Circassian coat, and a gun and dagger were tied to his back.

Above all these a large branch was tied, and it was this which at first had misled Lukashka.
'What a carp you've landed!' cried one of the Cossacks who had assembled in a circle, as the body, lifted out of the skiff, was laid on the bank, pressing down the grass.
'How yellow he is!' said another.
'Where have our fellows gone to search?
I expect the rest of them are on the other bank.

If this one had not been a scout he would not have swum that way.

Why else should he swim alone ?' said a third.
'Must have been a smart one to offer himself before the others; a regular brave!' said Lukashka mockingly, shivering as he wrung out his clothes that had got wet on the bank.
'His beard is dyed and cropped.' 'And he has tied a bag with a coat in it to his back.' 'That would make it easier for him to swim,' said some one.
'I say, Lukashka,' said the corporal, who was holding the dagger and gun taken from the dead man.

'Keep the dagger for yourself and the coat too; but I'll give you three rubles for the gun.