'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.' [‎2] (551/1024)

of the Women . That the Charge of Boftangi-Bachi is 0 t
the moji eminent of thbfe belonging to the Port . The great Q
conomy of the Partisans . The Policy of the Port ^ toheeptl '
Cham of the lejfer Tarrary in fubje & ion . The Principal £>■*
nitiesof Perfons relating to the Larv . The Species of Gold and
Siher-Coins current /'a Turkey. Whence , and how , the Gold
"pin'd at Cairo is brought thither. The fincerhy of the Ab f
ins. The Story of the Commerce tarried on in the difpofalf
the Jive Sols Pieces, French 'The jealoufiesof tl e
Perfons concern'd in that Trade. A mifchievous Fraud mildh
. * pmifh’d. The ancient of the Turks corrupted by the
Commerce of the Europseans.
The oni;m »/who are advanc'd to Charges, whether it be in the Semi.V •
% ffn n ’ I the Em P> re (excepting only the Eunuchs, of whom I Ihall give an aX™
A anon) are generally rais’d out of the Children taken in War orfrX
way of Prefents, by the Balia’s, or out of the Tributary Children, who’ abnS
or ten years ot /.ge, are taken out of their Mothers arms, through all the ProviW
lubdu d by the Ottoman Princes. They are all to be of Chriffian Parents; andcoul
ing only the Slaves taken from the Enemy, We find the Resifters of the Gift™!’
houle of Conflantmfk alone, that, of both Sexes, thefe are brought thither ew™
year near t wenty thouia nd. The Inhabitants of the Idler T^fwhonfake comf
nual Incurfions into all the Countries, that are in hpftilicy againft the Ottoman Enmire
lend up vaft numbers of them, and the Grand Seignor having the choice of all riw!
young Children, the beft lhap’d, and fuch as have the moff proofing
diftnbuted mto feyeral Seraglio’s, to be there inftru£fed_in the Law of
ana all forts of Excrciles. And afterwards, out of the choice or culling; of tftefehir
is the Seraglio of ConfiamiropU replenilh’d; and they are to be diftinguilh’d into two
Orders. The hrft and the moft eminent is that of the HogUnt, delign’d for the
emn£ arse c a ?n* i8mtles of f heE “PA re: The fecond, that of the Aza mg l«,
employ d in fnch Offices as require only ftrength of body. The Motions are diofc
tl G! fi' , lT b ; d 'V i A C f ft0rnpllflm \ C ' lts . ofthcBod y’ the y difeover alfo a noble Ge-
Prince ^ ^indfuch Jismay render them capable of fervingttei®
ftefevere Di~. r infh ^ ed with great care, and educated with the obfemnee
fdplmeof the kverc Difapline. They paft through four fevera] Chambers,called W/ 5
vnlincr n/ ? S ^ WU i e 0lir b° tens, where they Iearn 3 in order, whatever Is convenient for
^ w 10 al J C( ? ^ continnally about a great Prince, and areas it were his
• c ntlembn. If they commit the leaf! fault, they are feverely chafhVd^ and
- tnere is a great Pock of patience requifite, for any one to be advanc’d to tile fourth
Wa, which when they have attain’d, phey t?egin to take a. little, breath. 1 M the
hopes of being exalted to the greatefl Honours, and the mofl eminent Digniti<|s 3 makes
them endure the barbarous treatments of the Eunuchs, who are appointed to be their
Maffers,and are very liberaiof the Baflinado to them J fhallgive an account elfewhere
of die manner of their Education, and of thofe four Ot/a's, or Chambers, where they
learn thole things, whereby they arc qualifrd for the Charges, for which the Grand
Seignor defigris them, fhough it be appointed by the received Cuflomofthe Em
pire, that thole Children fhould be all defended from Cbri/tm Parents^ of thebeft
extra6fion, and the bed fhap’d that can be found ; yet the Capi-Jga, or Grand Ma-
Itcr of the Seraglio, the Principal of the white Eunuchs, who hath thefeief Com
mand over the I hnglans, hicks not to admit into their number feme natural furks,
luoi as may be rxommendable, upon the (core of their good qualities and endow-
ments: But that happens very feldomp and that not Without the particular permimon”
of the i nno,., wno would rather have all thole Children to bcRcnegado-Chriflia^
- • • ^ And