Zaporozhian Kosh sends two Cossacks, Yakov Voskoboynik and Ivan Baturinskiy, to Ochakov to buy horses. They started their journey in January; because of much snow, they stopped for a night in the house of Mehmed bölükbaşı of Ochakov, who knew the Russian language. He informed them that the new Sultan had sent a new ambassador to Russia. When they arrived in Ochakov, they met other Cossacks and Greek merchants.