'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.' [‎8] (557/1024)

A Relation of the Grand Seignors SIraclFo'
leiu ujc £ aiaurji j . _
all they fhouJd find at the Gates, which ordinarily'are guarded onlv° K* 16 Sw ° td
^ n » u a ™ ed With u a - I ? afly 9?t’ f d Awards to go and tnu4aV,r 01
himfclf in the Ffaram, which would be but poor y defended bv bkrlr,, j .“S
Eunuchs, who are poor Souldiers. But the intended hlowM r ?., ? nd White
Eunuchs, who are poor Souldiers. But the intended blow of the CWtX Whltc
prevented, and the chief Porter, a Perfon accounted one of the rrwft&'i'*
time, being in his Station, with two of his Servants, Cewiam bv Counrrt u ™ 5
tofay, valiant, asall thofc People are, fell upon the Traitors with his Cunete
beat them back fo fmartly, that they thought itthebeff way to run fot’t tI V-
having been inform'd of that aftion, order’d him to be brought into hie P/t 8
and after he had commended him, made this eftablilhment, That die O-nr^i
chief Porter, ftould ever continue in his Family, from Father to Son K
commanded the Keeper of the Archives, or Records, to infert that .A.vl • 0
the Hiftory, and wilh’d that his Own Name might be dafh’d outof it and IIT
had been done during his Reign, if any of his Succeflbrs attempted to chans tl
Charge^ h ' S W ’ ^ dCP VC theH0Ufe ° f that Faithf wl cZghfiZ
The Kilargi-bachi is the chief Governour of the Pages of the which is rf.,
place where they keep all the exquifite Drinks for the Grand Seignor’s own drinS
It is. a kind of Cup-bearers Office, and the Kilargi-bachi, a kindof Cup-bearer* 3
he is a fo made a Baffa upon his removal from the Charge of K,lam-bachi. HeisiC
over the Chief or all the Akgu, who are the Cooks and Confeaionerf, fi n “nd
Body can have any entrance into thofe Offices, but by his Order* and he h,,„“
Th- h nffi ft ° d ^ aI f th u- P i a L% WhiC u isfor thc P ecul 'arfervice of the Grand Seignon
This Officer has forhlsSubftitute the Kilarktodafu Now having told you. to
upon the reftoation of his Charge, he is made a it were not amifi to adv S
you further That they whoare remov'd outof theSeraglio, in order to theirbek
Baffa /, ought to have been of the number of the forty Pages of the Chamber and m
of Whom I have fpbken already of Dogangibachi, of the Chokidar, of thc Stliidl'r
wfyom I lhall dilcourfe anon. Otherwife, they can only
and of the Rikabdar, of
be Beys^ or Zaims, or
• . : , * , vvaiwji ciity tdiiouiy
r ■, - c ' - r .yt’ J,,s -! orat moft, but Capigibachis, by the Grand Seienot’s
X Ie 1 f tlC lame r wit ^ Cugombachi, who isthe lecondPcr-
r? 1 ^ 0 r if Office of the Trealury, as alio with the AnaMat-Aiaji. Who is the third.
If thefe I eople remove out of the Seraglio, be fore they are admitted info the num
ber of the Forty Pages of the Chamber, they have only a certain Pay, more or
Ids, the hishelt whereof amounts not to above two hundred Afpers. 1 proceed to
Relation^ ^® CCrs dic ^ era 8^°j °f whom there will be ibme mention made in my
, . TJ 16 y o g* n &‘-bacbi is the Grand Falconer, and his Charge makes him a confidtra-
blc Perfon about the Prince.
rJ hc Ch ^t r ^, he carriesthe Roynl Robe,, called the thc (me
Officer Which the French call Tortemartea*.
back hCK '^ W ‘ ,r is he whoholds Stirrup, when the Grand Seignor getsonHorfe-
The Seligdar is the firft of the Pages of theChamber 5 he carries the Grand Seig.
nors Sword upon davs of Ceremony, and they ordinarily advance to that Charge
one or the handfomeft Pages. J
The Hammangibachi is the chief Overfecr of the Bath. When he leaves the Sera-
glio, as allo when the Kamachirbachi, who is the chiefeft of the Pages of Seferti, does
to 5 their I ay isan hundered Afpers a day 5 and if they are in favour, it may amount;
? a 2 hundred'an fifty. It is ro be obierv’d in the genera], that when any one of
f , °£{y ^ ages of the Chamber is remov’d, the Vacancy is fhtfoly’d fometimes out
f i 6 ^ t^aiury, fometimes out of theand fometimes out of the StfAH, and
n that they take their turns. They always take our the moft ancient; and they
wno were next to them come Into their plate. How that is don'* ^ ^H rakcoc-'
nation to explicate more plainly in the Chapter of the Treafury.
The