HKB
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Often appears with: the fear of death · forms of government · conquest, plunder, and captives · chinghis death · caaju (castle) · arrow wound
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1)
Chinghis Kaan reigns six more years after the battle, then dies from an arrow wound to the knee at a castle called CAAJU, after which Polo turns to Chinghis’ successors and Tartar customs.
THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN. And after both sides had rested well those two days, they armed for the fight and engaged in desperate combat; and it was the greatest battle that ever was seen. The numbers that were slain on both sides were very great, but in the end Chinghis Kaan obtained the victory. And in the battle Prester John was slain. And from that time forward, day by day, his kingdom pa…