But the ensuing morning dispelled all these hopes.

It then appeared that these Tartars were but the advance guard of the great army.

With the earliest dawn, as far as the eye could reach, the inundation of warriors came rolling on, and terror vanquished all hearts.

This army was under the command of a Tartar chieftain called Toktamonish.

The assault was instantly commenced, and continued without cessation four days and nights.
At length the city fell, vanquished, it is said, by stratagem rather than by force.