The sufferings of the people within the fortress for want of water were very great. Many of them died in great misery, and at length the provisions began to fail too, and Khatun was compelled to allow the governor to surrender. The Monguls immediately seized the queen, and took possession of all her treasures. They also took captive all the lords and ladies who had attended her, and the women of her household, and two or three of her great-grandchildren, whom she had brought with her in her flight. All these persons were sent under a strong guard to Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan retained the queen as a captive for some time, and treated her in a very cruel and barbarous manner. He would sometimes order her to be brought into his tent, at the end of his dinner, that he might enjoy his triumph by insulting and deriding her. On these occasions he would throw her scraps of food from the table as if she had been a dog. He took away the children from her too, all but one, whom he left with her a while to comfort her, as he said; but one day an officer came and seized this one from her very arms, while she was dressing him and combing his hair. This last blow caused her a severer pang than any that she had before endured, and left her utterly disconsolate and heart-broken. Some accounts say that soon after this she was put to death, but others state that Genghis Khan retained her several years as a captive, and carried her to and fro in triumph in his train through the countries over which she had formerly reigned with so much power and splendor. She deserved her sufferings, it is true; but Genghis Khan was none the less guilty, on that account, for treating her so cruelly. CHAPTER XXII. VICTORIOUS CAMPAIGNS. 1220-1221 Continued conquests.--Efforts of Jalaloddin.--Jalaloddin becomes discouraged.--The governor's advice.--Renewed exertions.--Stratagem.--Fictitious soldiers.--Quarrel about a horse.--Disaffection.--Jalaloddin's forces divided.--Great battle in the defile.--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.--Bringing stones.--Occupation of slaves.--Shields.--Protection against fire.--Precautions.--Attempts at resistance.--Account of Kubru.--His noble spirit.--Kubru slain.--Pusillanimity.--Sorties by the garrisons.--Desperation of the people.--Mode of disposing of prisoners.--Prodigious slaughter.--Atrocities.--The pearl.--Genghis Khan's grandson killed.--His mother's revenge.--Principles of the Mohammedan faith.--Genghis Khan's opinion.--The spirit of religious bigotry.