Their faces were turned steadily east.

Occasionally they passed large tracts of cleared land, villages, and cultivated fields.

At some of these they stopped and replenished their stock of flour, which they took without paying for it, but did no farther damage.
Of meat they had abundance.

Two or three men started each day as soon as they halted, and, in a short time, returned with a goat or young pig.
"We are now close to the Bug River," Ladislas said at their last halting place.

"Tomorrow we shall meet some, at least, of our comrades.