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1 I, XIII| distant. They carried a detachment of Bokharian soldiers, on
2 I, XIV | his lips. At this moment a detachment debouched from the principal
3 I, XIV | following.~At the head of the detachment, composed of twenty horsemen,
4 I, XIV | precipitous retreat.~The detachment went at full trot into the
5 I, XVI | flames.”~“Was it an army or a detachment?”~“An army, for, as far
6 I, XVI | to the ground.~“It is a detachment of cavalry coming by the
7 I, XVI | quite impracticable, and the detachment must necessarily pass through
8 I, XVI | the top of the wood, the detachment halted. The horsemen dismounted.
9 I, XVI | found to his joy that the detachment were not thinking of visiting
10 I, XVI | what they said. It was a detachment from Omsk, composed of Usbeck
11 I, XVI | pace than the gallop.~This detachment was commanded by a “pendja-baschi”;
12 I, XVI | a courier of the Czar! A detachment of horsemen on his track
13 I, XVI | movement among the men of the detachment. A few horsemen were strolling
14 I, XVI | The two officers of the detachment urged on their men to follow.~
15 I, XVI | officer had distanced his detachment.~Without drawing rein, Michael
16 I, XVI | of the river. The Usbeck detachment was now not more than fifty
17 I, XVII| covert of some trees when a detachment of Tartar cavalry appeared
18 II, II | the guard of a numerous detachment of Tartars, were to make
19 II, VIII| was obliged to follow the detachment on foot.~Even now, not a
20 II, VIII| the 11th of September, the detachment passed through the village
21 II, VIII| officer in command of the detachment hastened up on hearing the
22 II, VIII| across a horse, and the detachment galloped off.~The rope which
23 II, IX | listened. It was evidently a detachment of horse advancing towards
24 II, X | moment that it was a Tartar detachment, sent to beat the shores
25 II, XI | Up till then, no Tartar detachment had been seen, which showed
26 II, XIII| evening to repulse a Tartar detachment. I mingled with the defenders
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