Shortly before the detachment arrived, Passepartout and his companions had begun to struggle with their captors, three of whom the Frenchman had felled with his fists, when his master and the soldiers hastened up to their relief.
Pocos momentos antes de la llegada del destacamento, Picaporte y los dos compañeros estaban luchando con sus guardianes, y el francés había ya derribado tres a puñetazos, cuando su amo y los soldados se precipitaron en su auxilio.