There were indeed boats full of soldiers, and in a few minutes they must reach the ferryboat, it being too heavily laden to escape from them.
Izan ere, soldaduz beteriko zenbait txalupa bizi-bizi jaisten ari ziren Irtish ibaian behera, eta, minutu batzuk igaro aurretik, gabarraraino iritsiko ziren, zama handiegia baitzeraman haien ihesi joateko.