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Among the other Mohammedan princes there was a certain Sultan Mohammed, a great and very powerful sovereign, who reigned over an extensive region in the neighborhood of the Caspian Sea, though the principal seat of his power was a country called Karazm. He was, in consequence, sometimes styled Mohammed Karazm.
Dissensions within the city. A deputation. Massacre. Escape of the governor. Forlorn condition of the sultan. The sultan sends away his treasures. His flight and his despondency. Narrow escape. Rage of his pursuers. Visit from his son Jalaloddin. His dying words. Death and burial. Khatun at Karazm. Her cruelty to her captives. Dissension. Khatun's escape. Her obstinacy.
She was at that time at Karazm, which was the capital, and she attempted to persuade the officers and soldiers near her not to submit to the sultan's decree, but to make Kothboddin their sovereign after all. While she was engaged in forming this conspiracy, the news reached the city that the Monguls were coming. Khatun immediately determined to flee to save her life.
She had, it seems, in her custody at Karazm twelve children, the sons of various princes that reigned in different parts of the empire or in the environs of it. These children were either held as hostages, or had been made captive in insurrections and wars, and were retained in prison as a punishment to their fathers.
Every thing being thus settled in this quarter, Genghis Khan next turned his attention to the western frontiers of his empire, where the Tartar and Mongul territory bordered on Turkestan and the dominions of the Mohammedans. Mohammedan countries on the west. Sultan Mohammed. Karazm. Proposed embassy. Makinut and his suite. Speech of the embassador. Father and son. The sultan not pleased.
With all this, however, she was very strict and severe, and, as has almost always been the case with women raised to the possession of irresponsible power, she was unrelenting and cruel in the extreme whenever, as she judged, any political necessity required her to act with decision. Khatun was not now at Samarcand. She was at Karazm, a city which was the chief residence of the court.
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