'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.' [‎42] (591/1024)

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42 A Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio^
Marble, wherein three or four men may bathe themfelves withouTa
venience, or trouble one to the other. There is alfo at one of the enl m ? n '
Room of Black and White Marble, and there the Barbers who h ^
knowledge of any other Profeffion, put np all their neceflaryUtenfils and i'll n °
ments, as Razors, Hones, Balls, and thofe Irons wherewith they
Nails: for as for Linhen, they donotufeany; and thofe who are to be ft u
come in hark naked from the Wafte upwards, and are cover’d from '
downwards, only with a Cloath, which reaches to the Ancle. Tis a
Rarity to meet with any one among thofe Barbers that knowes how tfT
blood* and their Lancets, are much like the Fleams, wherewith our FarnVroKi j
Horfes. . ; ^ , \; ^ ersDJeed
Oppofite to the Chamber of the Barbers, there are three other Rooms arch*^
With Marble, the larged whereof much furpafles in Beauty thofe that a
adjoyning to it. The Floor of it is of white and black Marble, and the Walk
are done about with fquare pieces, that are white and blew, and in every one
of them you find a Flower in embofs’d Work, done to the Life, and which a
man would take for enamell. Little Lamines or Plates of Gold cover the jun&ures
of thofe fquare pieces, and there cannot any thing be imagin’d more pleafantand’
divert!ve than that Chamber is. In the Roof of it, there afe feveral round holes
of about half a foot diameter, over which there are little Glafles made in the
fafhion of Bells, order’d as the Venice-Looking-Glafles are, left any one lliould
have the curiofity, to get up to the Roof, and laying himfelf upon his belly
think to lee what is done in the Bath. The place has no light but what it receives
by the means of thofe holes, and while fome body is in the Bath: But especially
when they go out of it, the door is (hut, the better to keep in the heat, and to
prevent their being feen - which might be if inftead of thofe forementioned
holes in the Roof, there were WindoWs below , according to our Mode.
All the other Baths Lave their Structures after the lame manner, and having
no light but what comes at little glaz’d boles, there is npt any paflage into
it but that ol the door, to the end that being prefently flint, the heat might
the better be kept within the Bath, and to prevent their being feen who ate
m it. ' • A
The Second Chamber is another Bath, but as to Beauty, it is.much inferiour to
the others And as for the third, there is forbething in it which is Angularly re
markable. The Floor of it is lay’d as With a fort of fmall ftones, fo as that the foot
cannot Hip, though it be wetted at their departure out of the Bath : And the whole
Room is done all about with fquare pieces,having in them flowers of embofs’d work,
done to the Life and covered with Gold and Azure. This is the place into which
the Grand Seignor enters. When he comes out of the Bath $ and he always goes
into it alone, when he intends to fhave himfelf in thofe parts, which are not to be
nam’d without immodefty. ' . ,
Mahomet pronounces a Cur fe upon thofe perfons who fuffer themielves to be feen,
and upon all thole who look on them: And the ftri£f obfervance, of his Law re
quires, That both Men and Women ought to fhave themfelves, without tiling the
afliftance of any other hand. ,
An Earth that But moft of the Inhabitants of the EASTERN Parts, the Arabians $ iartars,
takes off hair, and the Indians ^ make life of a more eafle expedient then the Razor, to get off
hair. It is a certain Earth, which they mix with fome Ofpiment, or Arlenick,
and which becomes foft as butter. When they are in the Bath, and begin to
fweat, they take of that Earth and therewith rub the parts, from which they
would have the hair to fall, and prefently after they muft be very carefullto
fee, whether it begins to fall, as one would obferve a Fowl, whofe feathers he
would take off, after it had been call into lealding water. For if that Earth be
left too long upon the parts whereto it had been apply’d, it burns and maxes
holes in the flclh, the marks whereof Will remain, fomewhat’ refembling thole,
Which the Small Pox fometitnes leaves behind it. Beftdes the skin of thofe parts
whereto this application is made, becofnesin time as hard and rough as feather 5
and thofe ungrateful inconveniencies have diverted the lurks and VerfMsiw
ufing that Expedient. Nor do the Chriffians of the Levantine Countries make n
the Cuftom of frequenting
Mahomet's
Prohibition to
be feen naked.
and its dange-
mts effefts.
Cbrifli
Of it, though they imitate the Mtihumttms in