On one occasion, a child annoyed him; he ordered it to be killed; but the child ran among seventy or eighty other children, and could not be distinguished, so he ordered the whole to be put to death.

He murdered two or three hundred of his wives in one day.

At the slightest suspicion he would order out his chiefs to execution, and no one knew when his turn might come.

His will was law: every one trembled and obeyed.

To enter into a detail of all his cruelties would fill volumes; it will be sufficient to mention the last act of his life.