The Hutuktu reported that Hun Boldon was mobilizing the Mongolian beggars and horse stealers, arming and training them; that the soldiers were taking the sheep of the monastery; that the "Noyon" Domojiroff was always drunk; and that the protests of the Hutuktu were answered with jeers and scolding.

The messengers gave very indefinite information regarding the strength of the detachment, some placing it at about thirty while others stated that Domojiroff said he had eight hundred in all.

We could not understand it at all and soon the messengers ceased coming.

All the letters of the Sait remained unanswered and the envoys did not return.

There seemed to be no doubt that the men had been killed or captured.
Prince Chultun Beyli determined to go himself.