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Updated: June 18, 2025
Mohammed's demand and the calif's reply. The sultan calls a council. Mohammed's plan for revenge. March of the army. Failure. The calif's plans. Objections to them. Arguments of the calif. Message to Genghis Khan. Artful device. The answer of Genghis Khan. The caravan arrives at Otrar. The governor's treachery. The party massacred. Genghis Khan hears the tidings. He declares war. Preparations.
Mohammed received the calif's embassador very honorably, and in his presence concealed the anger which the answer of the calif excited in his mind.
The sultan and the people of his country were, like the calif himself, Mohammedans, while the Monguls were of another religion altogether, or, as the Mohammedans called them, unbelievers or infidels; and the counselors who objected to the calif's proposal said that it would be very wrong to bring the enemies of God into the country of the faithful to guard against a present and temporary danger, and thereby, perhaps, in the end occasion the ruin both of their religion and their empire.
He succeeded in accomplishing the journey in safety, and when he arrived Genghis Khan had only to cause his head to be shaved, when the inscription containing the calif's proposal to him at once became legible.
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