This is a paraphrasing task. In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence which express same meaning as the input using different words.

his journey had been largely without incident , though he had seen many refugees and heard terrifying stories of the atrocities committed by the invading army .
there was nothing major in the way , though he had seen the amount of refugees and heard the gruesome tales of the atrocities perpetrated by foreign troops .