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.
The speaker's exceptional verbal abilities led him to believe he could wear down the Russians through an endless barrage of words, sometimes shouting aimlessly to maintain his pace. A firsthand Ottoman observer noted that ultimately, the Russians grew accustomed to listening to him as they would listen to a traditional kaval player.