The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

THE SUCCESSORS OF GENGHIS KHAN
investigated the matter. It being just as had been reported, orders
were given to gather all the girls of that tribe over seven years of age
and to take back all who had been given that year to their husbands.
Four thousand girls were thus assembled. He ordered those who were
daughters of emirs to be separated from the rest and made a yasa
that all who were present should have intercourse with them. Two of
the girls expired. As for the rest, he drew them up in two rows. Those
who were worthy of the ordo he dispatched to the harem, some he gave
to the cheetah-keepers and falconers, and some to the various attendants
at Court; others again he sent to the brothel and the hostel for
ambassadors. As for those that still remained, he ordered all present,
whether Mongols or Muslims, to carry them off whilst their brothers,
husbands, and kinsmen looked on not daring to breathe.