Kula

‘Without burning thirst, what is the brook for?’ Arkadź Kulašoŭ asks in his verse.

Instead of the haïdooks, their next of kin, the zaptiés now hold a kula on the highest point of the pass; here one pauses to rest after scrambling up the vile Turkish road on one side of the ravine, and before scrambling down the vile Turkish road on the other.

The most important kulas of the Čengić-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.

The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', i.e. adult men ready to fight.