After passing over heaps of dead or dying men, the first place he came to was a neighboring village, in the Abarian territories, which had been burned to the ground by the Bulgarians, agreeably to the laws of war. Here lay a number of old men covered with wounds, who beheld their wives dying with their throats cut, and hugging their children to their breasts, all stained with blood. There several young virgins, whose bodies had been ripped open, after they had satisfied the natural necessities of the Bulgarian heroes, breathed their last; while others, half-burned in the flames, begged to be dispatched out of the world. The ground about them was covered with the brains, arms, and legs of dead men.
Pasó por encima de muertos y moribundos hacinados, y llegó á un lugar inmediato que estaba hecho cenizas; y era un lugar abaro que conforme á las leyes de derecho público habian incendiado los Bulgaros: aquí, unos ancianos acribillados de heridas contemplaban exhalar el alma á sus esposas degolladas; mas allá, daban el postrer suspiro vírgenes pasadas á cuchillo despues de haber saciado los deseos naturales de algunos héroes; otras medio tostadas clamaban por que las acabaran de matar; la tierra estaba sembrada de sesos al lado de brazos y piernas cortadas.