bands starting up from no one knew where infested a country already devastated by years of war and burned time and again by us, thus affording no base for our troops, whose numbers were in any case inadequate;
auskalo nondik etorritako saldo eta eliak han zebiltzan gora eta behera, izurrite baten antzera, gerla-urte luzeek erraustu eta guk behin eta berriro kiskalia genuèn herrialde hartan barrena, non gure goarnizio aski-ezak heldulekurik gabe aurkitzen baitziren;