* **Dismiss the crowds** - "Tell the crowds to go away"
* **unless we went and bought food** - This could be translated as "unless we were to go and buy food" or "unless we go and buy food." Or you could start a new sentence, "If you want us to feed them, we would have to go and buy food."
* **about five thousand men** - "about 5,000 men." This number does not include the women and children who might have been present. (See: [[en:ta:vol2:translate:translate_numbers]])