Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . LEON VII. Aivb THE ARMENIANS. 69 Sionary soldiers of Mohammed, indeed brutes in character andnature, though clad in clayey garments of human forms, spreadthemselves all over the country. No city, town, or village; nobuilding of any value, whether church, monastery, or dwelling,and no human being of any age or sex that fell into their handswas spared. They slaughtered every human being, and burnedto ashes every building or razed it to the ground. In their exe-cution of the unfortunate victims fallen into their hands thevdid not leave any mode untried. The
Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . LEON VII. Aivb THE ARMENIANS. 69 Sionary soldiers of Mohammed, indeed brutes in character andnature, though clad in clayey garments of human forms, spreadthemselves all over the country. No city, town, or village; nobuilding of any value, whether church, monastery, or dwelling,and no human being of any age or sex that fell into their handswas spared. They slaughtered every human being, and burnedto ashes every building or razed it to the ground. In their exe-cution of the unfortunate victims fallen into their hands thevdid not leave any mode untried. The deceitful above allthings and desperately wicked heart- of a depraved humavicreature could not have suggested any new method of torturethat these Mohammedans did not devise and experiment upontheir captives. King Leo YI. and the garrison surrendered on the condi-tion that their lives would be spared. The Egyptian generalpromised this on oath. Leo VL was fettered, and, with hisfamily, carried to Cairo in the eleventh year of his reign.
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