o.

The other ships, which, not being so near to the land, did not suffer
from the storm, and in which the two chiefs were embarked, together
with the principal officers, or those whose rank entitled them to
command a hundred thousand or ten thousand men, directed their course
homeward, and returned to the Grand Khan.

Those of the Tartars who remained upon the island where they were
wrecked, and who amounted to about thirty thousand men, finding
themselves left without shipping, abandoned by their leaders, and
having neither arms nor provisions, expected nothing less than to
become captives or to perish; especially as the island afforded no
habitations where they could take shelter and refresh themselves. As
soon as the gale ceased and the sea became smooth and calm, the people
from the main island of Cipango came over with a large force, in
numerous boats, in order to make prisoners of these shipwrecked
Tartars, and, having landed, proceeded in search of them, but in a
straggling, disorderly manner. The Tartars, on their part, acted with
prudent circumspection, and, being concealed from view by some high
land in the centre of the island, while the enemy were hurrying in
pursuit of them by one road, made a circuit of the coast by another,
which brought them to the place where the fleet of boats was at
anchor. Finding these all abandoned, but with their colors flying,
they instantly seized them, and, pushing off from the island, stood
for the principal city of Cipango, into which, from the appearance of
the colors, they were suffered to enter unmolested.[79]

Here they found few of the inhabitants besides women, whom they
retained for their own use, and drove out all others. When the King
was apprised of what had taken place, he was much afflicted, and
immediately gave directions for a strict blockade of the city, which
was so effectual that not any person was suffered to enter or to
escape from it during six months that the siege continued. At the
expiration of this time the Tartars, despairing of succor, surrendered
upon the condition of their lives being spared.

These events took place in the course of the year 1264.[80] The Grand
Khan having learned some years after that the unfortunate issue of the
expedition was to be attributed to the dissension between the two
commanders, caused the head of one of them to be cut off; the other he
sent to the savage island of Zorza,[81] where it is the custom to
execute cri