All the band went out, and returned in the evening, laden with spoil.

Two or three of them were wounded, but not severely.
"So you had resistance today, Meinik." "It lasted only for a minute," the man said.

"As soon as they saw how strong we were, the guard were glad enough to put up their swords and let us bind them hand and foot, while we searched the merchants.

As you see, we have made a good capture, though we have not seized more than a fifth of what they brought down with them; but it will take them some time to pack their bales again, for we searched everything thoroughly, and made all the merchants strip, and searched their clothes and their hair." "What did you do that for ?" "Well, it was this way.

I said to my comrades, as we went along this morning: "'The Englishman is going to leave us, in a day or two.