Naiam was ordered to be sewed up between two carpets, and tossed up and down till he died, to avoid shedding the blood of any one belonging to the imperial house of Zingis.

Naiam is said to have been secretly baptized, and to have professed himself a Christian, having his principal ensign marked with the sign of the cross, and to have had a great number of Christians in his army who were all slain.  On this occasion, the Jews and Mahometans, who served in the army of Kublai, upbraided his Christian soldiers with the disaster which had happened to the cross in this battle.  The Christians complained to Kublai of this injurious conduct, who sharply reproved the Jews and Mahometans for their behaviour; then turning to the Christians, he addressed them as follows:  “Surely your God and his cross would not give aid to Naiam.  Be not you therefore ashamed of what has happened; seeing that God, who is good and just, did not defend iniquity and injustice.  Naiam was a traitor and a rebel, and sought the aid of your God in his mischievous purpose:  But your good and upright God would not favour his bad designs.”  Kublai-khan returned after this great victory to Cambalu; and on Easter day he called the Christians into his presence, and kissed their gospel with great reverence, making all his great officers and barons do the same.  And he acts in a similar manner on the great festivals of the Mahometans, Jews [5], and heathens; that Segomamber-khan, the great god of the idol, Mahomet, Moses, and Jesus, or whosoever is greatest in heaven, may be favourable to him; yet he made the best shew of liking to the Christian faith, but alleged that the ignorance of the Nestorian priests, and the great interest of the sorcerers among the people, hindered him from making a profession of Christianity.

For the better rewarding his brave and faithful soldiers, the khan has a military council, composed of twelve Tartar barons, who give him notice of the meritorious services of all commanders, that they may be promoted to higher stations, giving to one the command of an hundred, to another the command of a thousand, and to a third the command of ten thousand, and so on.  The captain of an hundred men has a badge or tablet of silver; the captain of a thousand has a tablet of gold or silver gilt; and the commander of ten thousand has a tablet of gold, ornamented with the head of a lion.  These tablets differ in size and weight, according to the dignity of the wearers.  On each tablet there is an inscription of the following import:  “By the strength and power of the Almighty God, and by the grace which He hath given to our empire:  Let the name of the great khan be blessed, and let all die or be destroyed who will not obey his commands.”  Besides these badges of distinction all officers have commissions in writing, in which all their duties, privileges, and authorities are recited.  When the generals appear in public, they have a cloth or canopy carried over their heads, and they give audience sitting on chairs of silver.  The badge or tablet of a general, weighs three hundred sagi, or fifty ounces of gold, laving images of the sun and moon; and such as have the representation of a ger-falcon, may take with them a whole army for their guard.