'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.' [‎7] (556/1024)

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A Relation of the Grand Seignors- Seraglio.
Tented to bis Highnefs, of which he makes great Advantages. No Man can enter
into the Emperour’s Apartment, nor get out of it, without his Order; and when
the Grand Vizir would fpeak to him, ’tis the Capi-Jga’s place, to take and prefent him
to his Highnefs. Whether it be by night or by day, if there happen Tome preffing
Affair, whereof the Vizir would give the Grand Seignor immediate notice in wri
ting, the Capi-Jga receives it from him and brings him the anfwer thereto. He wears
his Turbant in the Seraglio, and rides up and down on Horfe-back, by a Priviledge
particularly annex’d to his Charge. He accompanies the Grand Seignor even into the
Apartment of the SukanefTes, but he flays at the door, as having no Command in
that place. WEcn he leaves the Seraglio, upon his being difmifs’d from his Charge ?
which very feldom happens, he cannot be a Raff a. As to his Table, all is at the Prince’s
Charge, and he has over and above ten Suit mines a day, which amount to fixty
Livers, French Money. There have been iome Capi-Aga’s who have dy’d worth
two millions, all which return’d into the Grand Seignor’s Coffers. The chief of the
white Eunuchs is attended by four others, who next to him have the principal
Charges of the Grand Seignor’s Quarter.
The Hazodahachf is, as it were, the Lord High-Chamberlain, having under hig
Chargetheforty Pages of the Chamber, who ordinarily approach the Grand Seig
nor’s Per Ton.
The Serai-Agafi has the general Superintendency of all the Chambers of the Grand
Seignor’s Quarter, as to what relates to Embellifhment, and the neceffary Repara
tions. He has'a particular inlpc&ion over the Seferh Odafi, which is the Chamber
of the Pages, who are to look after the Grand Seignor’s Linnen, and attend him in
his ProgrefTes. ’Tis incumbent alfoupon him to give Order for their Cloaths, and
whatever die they (land in need of t And his Charge does fomewhat refemble that
of Captain of the Louver~Ca(ile, in France^ fince it is his work generally to makepro-
vifion for whatever may contribute to the decency and well-ordering of that great
Palace. He has for his Affiflant, or Lieutenant, the Seraiket-Odafi^ who is alfb an
Eunuch, whole imployment it is to have the Tapiflry and Carpets which are fpread
iipon the Floors, in the Halls and Lodgings of the Seraglio, chang’d every fix
months.
The Haznadar^ or Cbaznadar-Bachi, is the chief Intendant of the Treafury, and has
the infpe&ion of the condud and deportment of the Pages of that Camber. Which is
not to be underfbod of the Treafury, defign’d for the exigencies of the State, and
the ordinary Pay of the Souldiery, and whereof the Grand Vizir ^ and the three
fefterdars^ or Treafurcrs-General have the Keys, and Intendency. But I here fpeak
of, is the place where they keep the Jewels of the Crown, and all the other Rari
ties, and the wealth gather’d together, from Father to Son, by the Ottoman Princes 5
which I fhall endeavour to lay down diftindfcly, before the Reader’s profpeef,^ in my
Relation, when I come to open to him both the Treafuries- However it is to be
obferv’d, that the Chaznadar-bacbi has only the honorary title of chief of the Trea
fury, nay, that he cannot fo much as enter into it, fince that in the Reign of Sultan
Amur at ^ the Pages of the Treafury having complain’d to the Grand Seignor of the ill
condud of that Eunuch, he, upon their Petition, order’d that xhe Chaznadar-bacbi
fiiould no longer have any Command there, and that the Cbaznatyt-odafi fhould for
the future exercife his Charge, without depriving him of the title thereof. But in
regard the Ckaznadar-bacbi is the better known, and the more pronounceable Name,
I fhall always make ufe of it, inftead of the other ; and we muff not omit giving
you this remark, That when the Chief, or Overfeer of the Treafury, is remov’d
from his Charge, he is made a Bajfa. Upon this counterchanging of thefe two
Officers of the Seraglio, it is to be obferv’d, That, amongff all the Mahumetan
Princes, Perfians, Indians, and of what Se£f foever they may be of, what has
been order’d and eflablifh’din the Reign of one Prince, is never revok’d by his Suc-
cefibr: And under the fame Sultan Amur at, the Capou-Agafi having committed fome
little impertinence, whereat the Grand Seignor took offence, he excluded thence-
forwards all the Capou-Agafi s, who fhould be remov’d out of the Seraglio, from
the priviledge of coming into a capacity to be made Bajfa’s> I fhall not think it much
to aliedge upon this particular, another example of that Maxime, of which I was
an eye-witnefs my felf, in the King of Perfa’s Court. ’Twas in the Reign of Scach
dbti, againft whom fome Grandees of the Court had enter’d into a Confpiracy , and
attempted