 Pandur recruitment largely failed here, but the townsfolk pledged their material support.The hostile narrator of "Istoria jăfuitorilor" also claims that Vladimirescu was expected in Bucharest by a fifth column, comprising "vagabonds, foreigners, Serbian, Arnaut or Bulgarian thieves, and all those Bucharest panhandlers that we mockingly call "crai" [kings]".The breakdown of Phanariote power accelerated crossovers by the Arnauts, who were no longer receiving salaries from the treasury.