_ 339 _ an unfortunate wretch since he had lost his honour and all his estate. Thus, those who had captured the Sheikh, when they heard the outburst of the man pretending to be the Sheikh, released the one they had already taken prisoner and seized his captain, whom they presented to the Turk. The Sheikh then sought refuge. Some of his men who had escaped fled, and others hid in the woods. The Turk came as far as the city of Tabriz where he stayed three days without robbing or molesting a single person. He seized the whole of the treasure belonging to the Sheikh, which he divided among all his favourites. When three days had passed, he left the city for his country because he heard a report that Sheikh Ismael was returning against him with a large army and a great host of people. He took forty of the leading and richest merchants with him to Turkey but he departed in such a hurry that he left sixty pieces of artillery in the city. Some say it was because of the fear he had for Sheikh Ismael and of what he had witnessed in the battle that he was afraid of another. The Sheikh took two of his wives to the war in which one of them died, as did one hundred of her guard defending her. The elder wife escaped by fleeing on foot. When she went to hide in the woods, she met a poor
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