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He, however, listened quietly to Makinut's words, and said nothing until the public audience was ended. He then took Makinut alone into another apartment in order to have some quiet conversation with him.
"How is it?" said he; "has the emperor really made all those conquests, and is his empire as extensive and powerful as he pretends? Tell me the honest truth about it." "What I have told your majesty is the honest truth about it," replied Makinut.
The time when this embassy was sent was in the year 1217, and the name of the principal embassador was Makinut. Makinut set out on his mission accompanied by a large retinue of attendants and guards. The journey occupied several weeks, but at length he arrived in the sultan's dominions.
Private interview. Anger of the sultan. Conversation. Makinut returns a soft answer. The sultan is appeased. Treaty made. Genghis Khan is pleased. Opening of the trade. The exorbitant merchants. Their punishment. The next company. Their artful management. Genghis Khan fits out a company. Embassadors. Mohammedans. Messengers from the court. Large party. Roads doubly guarded. The Calif of Bagdad.
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.
A treaty of peace and commerce was drawn up and signed, and, after every thing was concluded, Makinut returned to the Mongul country loaded with presents, some of which were for himself and his attendants, and others were for Genghis Khan.
Makinut now found that perhaps he had spoken a little too plainly, and he began immediately to soften and modify what he had said, and to compliment the sultan himself, who, as he was well aware, was really superior in power and glory to Genghis Khan, notwithstanding the great extension to which the empire of the latter had recently attained.
This caravan traveled in company with Makinut on his return, in order to avail themselves of the protection which the guard that attended him could afford in passing through the intervening countries.
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