MICHAEL'S fear of meeting the Tartars in the plains beyond the Baraba was by no means ungrounded. The fields, trodden down by horses' hoofs, afforded but too clear evidence that their hordes had passed that way; the same, indeed, might be said of these barbarians as of the Turks:
eta zuzen zebilen. Soroek, zaldien apoez zanpa-zanpa eginda, tatariarrak han barrena pasa zirela erakusten zuten, eta barbaro horiez esan daiteke turkoez esan ohi dena: