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Updated: June 25, 2025
There was a beautiful Arabian horse which two of his leading generals desired to possess, and each claimed it. The dispute became, at last, so violent that one of the generals struck the other in his face with the lash of his whip. Upon this the feud became a deadly one. Both parties appealed to Jalaloddin.
Orders to take Jalaloddin alive. He takes leave of his family. His escape across the river. His defiance of his pursuers. Struggles of the horse. Night spent in a tree. Jalaloddin meets with friends. Large body of men escaped. Pressing wants. Timely aid from Jamalarrazad. Fate of the sultan's family. Sunken treasures. Jalaloddin's end. Sieges. Logs instead of stones for ammunition. Modern bombs.
Jalaloddin did every thing in his power to bring the disaffected general back again; but, before he could accomplish this purpose, Genghis Khan came up with a large force between the two parties, and prevented their effecting a junction. Jalaloddin had now no alternative but to retreat.
The progress of the horse was watched with great interest by Genghis Khan and his party from the shore as long as they could see him. As soon as Jalaloddin landed, and had recovered a little from the fatigue and excitement of the passage, he began to look around him, and to consider what was next to be done.
It seems that the Mongul detachment which was sent out in this instance against Jalaloddin was not strong enough, and the general, in order to make Jalaloddin believe that his force was greater than it really was, ordered all the felt caps and cloaks that there were in the army to be stuffed with straw, and placed on the horses and camels of the baggage, in order to give the appearance of a second line of reserve in the rear of the line of real soldiers.
They were obliged to manage the business very secretly, to prevent the Monguls from finding out what was going on. On the arrival of Jalaloddin, the sultan expressed great satisfaction in seeing him, and he revoked the decree by which he had been superseded in the succession.
He succeeded in getting off in this boat before his plan was discovered by the Monguls, and in the course of the next morning he reached the opposite bank with it, and thus furnished to Jalaloddin an abundant provision for his immediate necessities.
Finally, toward morning, they had landed, not far from the place where Jalaloddin found them. Not long after this he came upon a troop of three hundred horsemen, who had escaped by swimming the river at a place where the water was more smooth, at some distance below.
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