- A Chinese family lived there. They gave me food, but I've felt a certain distrust. I didn't understand what they were talking to me. They have a strange accent.

- The Terkasides... They must have taken you for a Jijuterk. ...Do you mind if I smoke?

--- Oh! Go ahead. Nothing surprises me anymore since I got here... So a woman who smokes a pipe and doesn't wear dresses...

--- I suppose they haven't invited you to stay...
- Oh! Hell, no! I continued east, passing from farm to farm. But the things went wrong when I crossed one of their villages...