A light shone through the window.

I knocked at the gate.

A furious barking of dogs answered me and through the cracks of the fence I made out four huge black Mongol dogs, showing their teeth and growling as they rushed toward the gate.

Inside the court someone opened the door and called out: "Who is there ?" I answered that I was traveling through from Uliassutai.

The dogs were first caught and chained and I was then admitted by a man who looked me over very carefully and inquiringly from head to foot.