When the Mongol army was
investing Miafarakain, the chief, Malik Kamal, told his people that
everything he had should be at the service of those in need: "Thank God, I
am not like Mosta'sim, a worshipper of silver and gold!"
(Hayton in Ram. ch. xxvi.; Per. Quat. 121; Pachym. Mic. Palaeol.
II. 24; Joinville, p. 182; Sanuto, p. 238; J. As. ser. V. tom. xi.
490, and xvi. 291; D'Ohsson, III. 243; Hammer's Wassaf, 75-76; Quat.
Rashid. 305.)
NOTE 8. - Nevertheless Froissart brings the Khalif to life again one
hundred and twenty years later, as "Le Galifre de Baudas." (Bk. III. ch.
xxiv.)
[1] Not that Alaue (pace Mr. Longfellow) ever did see Cambalu.
CHAPTER VII.
HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS
LAND.
I will tell you then this great marvel that occurred between Baudas and
Mausul.
It was in the year of Christ[NOTE 1] ... that there was a Calif at Baudas
who bore a great hatred to Christians, and was taken up day and night with
the thought how he might either bring those that were in his kingdom over
to his own faith, or might procure them all to be slain. And he used daily
to take counsel about this with the devotees and priests of his
faith,[NOTE 2] for they all bore the Christians like malice.
