'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.' [‎35] (584/1024)

A Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio.
Grand Scignor's (cclcc Apartment. Here, thdchglans, who have endur’d hard-""
Jhip To many years m the three firft Chambers^ begin to take breath, and to be
allow’d more Liberty. 1 hey are permitted to converfe. with all Perfons within
the Seraglio, and they have the advantage of frequent approaches to the. Prince’s
Perfon, to whom they make themfelves known 3 and from whom they ever
and anon receive favours. . . • *
{ Ulld , er ^«pf*C4hird Court, where a certain number of Hunuchs are
upon the Guard Night and Day, there is a paflage on the left hand which tf ‘be Pour
leads into a little Gallery, out of which there is an entrance into the Aw2.u-t rind f al
hieut of the Capon-Agafi ; and when the Gate is open, it hides chat paflase into Emkchs ‘
which a man cannot enter but with fome difficulty. ■ . ° 3
A littfe. further, and on the right hand of the Hall of Audience, ftands the
Appartmenr of the Serai-Agafi, who is to take care for the keeping of the Seraglio
-dean and in good order; and a little further yet, near a little Mofque, where
the Icboglaiir oi the three hrlt Chambers go to their Devotions, lies the Quarter
pf the Sefei lit j ' who arc an hundred and fifty of the Icbsgtant* or thereabouts par~
ticularly appointed for the wafhingof the Grand Seignor’s Linneji. When he
goes into the Countrey, the moft Antient among them are of his Retinue- and
there mdft be comprehended in that Number, fuch as play on Timbrels’ and
the other Inltrumental Muficians, who have die lame appointments With the
reft. , > . _ ; . V.
Let us now enter into the Hall of Audience, which is a Quarter as ’twere in
dependent from others, and where the Grand Seignof receives Foreign Am-
bafladors. .
CHAR VI.
Of the Hall wherein the .Grand Seignor gives Audi
ence to Forein Ambafladors, and the manner how
they are receiv’d.
THE PRINCIPAL HEADS.
The defeription of the Had of Audience. ’The Grand
Seignors Throne. The manner how Ambatfadors are
receivd. Remarks upon the number of Veftments
which the Grand Seignor orders to he hejlowd on the
Ambajfadors of Chriftian Princes. The form of the
Oath of Allegiance, which the Cham of the Lejfer
Tartary comes to taf^e at the fame place.
HE third Court of the $eraglio 3 wherein we now are, is far from beings vj
io regular, as the precedent, and the Striiffures within fufficiently difeo- Audience de-
ver, that the Perfons by whom it was built, minded not the obfcrvance feribed,
of any Order in the doing of it. When you are at the Gate of this
you have juft oppofite to you a little Appartment, not adjqyning to the
at the entrance of which you find, on both hides, a Fountain iffuing out
(F} . of