Proud of his rhetorical skill, he thought he could wear down the Russians with his diatribe of words and he sometimes just shouted at them meaninglessly to keep the pace of his speech. A first-hand Ottoman witness, named below, wrote that, in the end, the Russians had got used to listening to him as they would listen to a kaval.
Proud of his exceptional verbal prowess, he thought he could wear down the Russians with an onslaught of words and occasionally shouted at them pointlessly to keep up the tempo. A first-hand Ottoman observer, who is quoted below, observed that in the end, the Russians became accustomed to listening to him as they would to a kaval player.