'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎69] (618/1024)

A Liektion of the Grand Seignors Seraglio. 69
Afloon as a* Prince is come to the Crown, whatever he ordinarly wears, is The ^cetteni
never return’d into the Treafury till after his death: And ^ChafnaieM^tr^
who is the Overfeer ot it, finds by his Reg.ltnes* whether all the things chat
Were taken out of the Treafury, during the Grand Scignor’s life, are
brought into it again at his death. Whenever any^ piece is^ taken our, the
Sdigdar-Jga, to whom it is deliver’d, gives the Principal Officer of the Trea
fury an acknowledgment, under his hand , of his having receiv’d it; and
by that means nothing can be embezill'd, good order being ftridfly obferv’d
in all things, relating to the Seraglio. Iti fonie or her parts of the Chamber
you find hanging up Ponyards and Knives, all rich Pieces, and befet with
precious ftones, which as all the reft, are exa&ly Kegiftred in the Books of
the Treafury. On each fide of the faid Chamber, there are two little Rooms,
for four Pages of the Seferlis , who wait on the Seligdar-Aga^ and arc always
about his perfon. Tis now time that we pafs into the Grand Seignor’s Quarter.
CHAP. XV.
Of the Grand Seignor s Appartment.
THE PRINCIPAL HEADS.
The Chamber of the Forty Pages. A noble Monument of the Valour
of Amurath. The fituation of the Mofqueys in Turkey. The
Ceremonies of their Devotions. A Magnificent Winter-Chamber.
The myjierious Seal of Mahomet. The great Superjlitions of
the Turks. A fantajlich^ and covetous Tnac\of Devotion. The
Kelichs of Omar. A ridiculous Se&. The Grand Seignor’s
Quarter. The Emperour AmurathV Belvedere^ or place of
FrofpeSl. The Excellent Wines of the // 7 e tfjfTenedos. A per*
fdious Act jujily pnnifh'd. The Fortune of a beautiful Sicilian
Virgin. The Grand Seignof s Bed-Chamber. The ancient ve*
neration of the Turks for Mahomet’s Banner. A word farther
of the Prince’s Appartment.
T Hough the inner part of the Seraglio ought properly to be divided into blit
two great Quarters, which are the Grand Seignor $ own Quarter; and the
Quarter of the Suhaneffes ; yet ha* 7 e I thought it more convenient, for
f the Reader’s better remembrance of things, to diftinguifh to him the dif-
^rent parts, of which the former confifts anfwerably to its fevcral ufes: and after
yarge account, given of the Baths, the Treafury, the Gup-Bearer’s Office; and
jyTalconry, I come now to the particular Appartment' of the Grand Setgnors
ferfon. . > = ■ >
d he Haz O J a is the firft ftrn6lure that offers it felf to your view, and ’tis by that F'je chamber
^piethe Turks call the fourth and high eft dalle of the IchogUns^ Which is the °p a J s% ° r 7
yiambcr of the Forty Pages^ who are hdurly employ’d in die GrandSeignods Service,
i hs Chamber is of the fame largnels, as that of the Pages of the Treafury, and
J ^ K a ftirnifti’d