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Kariakas now found himself an object of suspicion and distrust in the town and in the garrison on account of his having made the proposal to surrender, and feeling that he was not safe, he determined to make a separate peace for himself and his ten thousand by going out secretly in the night and giving himself up to the princes.
The emperor in the mosque. Desecration of the mosque. Genghis Khan makes a speech. The inhabitants give up every thing. Conflagration. Surrender of the citadel. The town utterly destroyed. News of the fall of Otrar. Plans for the defense of Otrar. Sorties. The proposal made to Genghis Khan. The siege renewed. The outer walls taken. Desperate conflicts. Kariakas and the governor. Treason.
At length Kariakas, the captain of the guard, who had been sent to assist the governor in the defense of the town, began to think it was time that the carnage should cease and that the town should be surrendered. But the governor, who knew that he would most assuredly be beheaded if in any way he fell into the hands of the enemy, would not listen to any proposal of the kind.
The name of this governor was Gayer Khan. The sultan, knowing that Genghis Khan would doubtless make this city one of his first objects of attack, left the governor a force of fifty thousand men to defend it. He afterward sent him an additional force of ten thousand men, under the command of a general named Kariakas. With these soldiers the governor shut himself up in the city.
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