The dawn came and I began to look for a shelter in which I could hide. I found a copse of trees, rocks and rubble nature had deposited in one or more of its torrential downpours. There were felled trees here and there and I was able to gather enough pine needles and pine boughs to make a fairly comfortable bed once my coat was laid over the top of the natural material. I was asleep in no time.
The daytime belonged to the militiamen in those early days. They were a bunch of incompetents when it came to finding someone who didn't want to be found. In terms of noise discipline they were totally incompetent. They made a lot of noise and woke me up a couple of times. I looked around carefully and saw nothing, listened and heard them at a long distance. They had lost the thread of the trail. Th
