Chultun Beyli detained me for a long time, so that I was forced to return about nine in the evening.

My horse was walking.

Half a mile from the town three men sprang up out of the ditch and ran at me.

I whipped up my horse but noticed several more men coming out of the other ditch as though to head me off.

They, however, made for the other group and captured them and I heard the voice of a foreigner calling me back.