'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.' [‎32] (581/1024)

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fufpefts,
pence : and his next command was, That the Doctor fhould be punilfrd ac 1
ding to his own Sentence. To that end, otxier was gh/en, that a Stone HiouldT :
made hollow, after the form of a Mortar, into which he was thrown ftark nak x
and pounded alive by the common Executioners. And that is the fame
Mortar which I have often feen near the Gate of the Divan, and is left rh^
for a Memorial of fo admirable and fo folemn a Judgment. And this was T
period of a Hiifory, whereof all* the circumftarices are remarkable, and wh'h
is not oiie of the leaft Monuments of the Wifdcm of the Emperour
That Prince, inflead of ufing his abfolute power at the hrft overture of fuch ^
Affair, thought it fitter, by a perfpicacity of mind and prudence, patiently r
expect remote occafions, that he might thence deduce evident proofs of °
conceal'd Crime : and his intention was to raife the Do&or to great dignities jf
he had found him innocent; and to punifh him feverely^ as he did, umn ’rhp
dilcovery. of his guilt.
_ f y I told you at the beginning of this Chapter^ that of the four days of the Wceb
hm, the Grand appointed for the fitting of the Divan, thole which are anfwerable to our Sun-
Seigwr rids Jay anc f Tuefday, are the principal, as being thofe on which the Mairs of
tHfwhomte S reate E importance are debated. They call thofe two days Arzgbmz, in regard
m ;c that after the Grand Vifir, the fix other Vifirs, and the two Cadikfqtters who
affifl: at the Divan, have admin iff red Juffite, they go all together to kils the
Grand Seignor’s hands. If any one of thofe Nine Judges have ought to fay
to him, he is permitted on thofe days, to ipeak to him freely: and it is ordi
narily upon thofe days alfo, that the Grand Seignor takes his time, if he has
a mind to take off any one. He then ordets the Boflangi-Bacbi to be ready, with
fomeof thofe who attend him, to execute his will; and having declar'd to him
Who they arc, whom he would have firangled, the order is no fooner given
but that either at their arrival, or at their departure, it is pun&ually obey’d!
True it is, that he does not demean himfelf fo, but when he is afraid of feme
popular fedition, in cafe he fhould fend to punifh them in their own Houfes,
Where they, might make fome refinance. But within the Seraglio, and in fight
of the Janizaries, who are in their (lations near the Divan, the unfortunate
Perfon, whom they would have to be firangled, has no mote to do than to
bow down his Head, ahd to ffretch out his Neck, without thinking of any
refinance, which would be to no purpofe. In the Eleventh Chapter I fhall give
an Account at large, how they proceed fo that Execution.
m -A little beyond the Hall of the Divan, you come to another Hall, rais’d up
tvhkh^Ambaf - a Eer the manner of a Balcony, where the AmbafTadors arefeated, when they
fadors come to affifl at the Divan, and that they do, once in three months, and upon the
the Divan. days that the Janizaries receive their Pay. Thete is Notice font them to be
there, out of a vain off ehtation, that they may fee, what abundance of money
goes out of the Treafury. Between thefe two Halls there is a Gate, which
leads to the Quarter of the Baltagit. Thofe are a fott of flrong and rebuff
People, employ’d, as I told you, in carrying of Wood all about the Seraglio,
and other mean and painful Offices. As to the wood, which is burnt in the
Appartments of the Women, they disbiirthen themfelves of it at the Door,
where the Negro-Eunuchs take it tip, and carry it into the Baths and other
Rooms, into which they only are permitted to go. And this is alj that i^
confiderable in that fecond Court. Let us now enter further into the Senglioj
and fee how things are manag’d there^
The days on