'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.' [‎19] (568/1024)

ivmrs Seraglio.
Tapiftry ay d all over the Floors thereof and fome CulWons of Gold and
Silver Brokado, feme whereof are embroider’d with Pearls. But taking things
generally, if the Walls and the Towers which inclofe the Seraglio, look more
Ux a liigntfnl Pj ron, than a Roval Palace the Apartments whereof it con-
fills, have not alio hat Wealth or Plealure, for which the Palaces of and
Italy are fo highly celebrated and they offer not any thing which may long ente^
tain the fight of a curious Perfon. All that can make the Seraglio a pleafaiit place
of Abode, is the advantage of its fituanon, and indeed a Nobler- cannot be
irnagiii d. For it looks towards the haft, and takes up the upper part, and the
deicent of a Hoping Hillock, from St. Sophia, quite to the Channel. The Buil
dings are upon the moll eminent places, [and have a ProlpcA into the Gar
dens, which run along the deicent, as alfo into the two Seas which meet at the
point of the Seraglio, whence the Grand Seignor may at the fame time £e
Empe and Afm, in both which parts of the World, his Territories are very great
But never was any Pnfon thought a pleafant place, and there are few inthe Se
raglio, who rather would live in a Hut, and have their Liberty, than be con
tinually confin’d in a Palace under fuch fevere Difcipline ' C ° n
CHAP.
Of the firft Court of the Seraglio, and particularly
of the Infirmary*.
■ Vj
THE PRINCIPAL HEADS.
w. 7 k
„ w mto it. The jhhtilty efi fome
People to be receiv'd into it, thd they are not Sid^ An
abominable vice common all over the Eaft. The fruit-
lefs endeavours us’d to checl^ the courfe of it. The
facrilegiousaclion of two Ichoglans. The Wood-piles
of the Seraglio. The great advantages of thofe who
have the Charge thereof. I The exercife of the Girit.
The- Grand Seignor s Liberalities. The counterfeit Mo-
defy of the Grandees of the Tort.
. y' /
0 1 the many Gates which give a Man entrance into the Seraglio, as well
on the Sea-ude, as on the Land-fide, that towards S. Sophia is the greateft.
Seif-nnr’c j p 3 ' llw ? 7 s T'B the others not being fo, but according to the Grand
of iricnffif CalUle ' Yl f ! EiH come to a great Portal, whic h has not any thing
Feu:']]^" et1 j e V an< ?. wh< ! re y° u on! y End certain golden Letters, and about them
Gate iVto Gortpartiments, according to the way of Painting.. That
and the hy hfty who have for their Arms, the Firelock, the Dart,
Which i'; ? Buai 5 and giyds you entrance into the firft Court of the Seraglio,
Paying/ ’ our hundred Paces m length, and a hundred in breadth, without any
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