They were to be received with the honours due to their rank as free tenants of the sultan, their lives and their families were to be spared, and also their possessions.

The other inhabitants of Kardiki, being Mohammedans, and therefore brothers of Ali, were to be treated as friends and retain their lives and property.

On these conditions a quarter of the town; was to be occupied by the victorious troops.
One of the principal chiefs, Saleh Bey, and his wife, foreseeing the fate which awaited their friends, committed suicide at the moment when, in pursuance of the treaty, Ali's soldiers took possession of the quarter assigned to them.
Ali received the seventy-two beys with all marks of friendship when they arrived at Janina.

He lodged them in a palace on the lake, and treated them magnificently for some days.

But soon, having contrived on some pretext to disarm them, he had them conveyed, loaded with chains, to a Greek convent on an island in the lake, which was converted into a prison.