At length they arrived at their destination, where the triumphant and implacable Chainitza awaited them.

As after the taking of Kormovo, she compelled the women to cut off their hair and to stuff with it a mattress on which she lay.

She then stripped them, and joyfully narrated to them the massacre of their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, and when she had sufficiently enjoyed their misery they were again handed over to the insults of the soldiery.

Chainitza finally published an edict forbidding either clothes, shelter, or food to be given to the women and children of Kardiki, who were then driven forth into the woods either to die of hunger or to be devoured by wild beasts.

As to the seventy-two hostages, Ali put them all to death when he returned to Janina.