'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.' [‎49] (598/1024)

A Relation of the Grand Seigmrs Seraglio.
the removal of the SajfrV, whereof ihe very coined Gold makes the belt part • the
fmm rhe Revenue or E?vVt. where rherp h
Treafury. ^ ■
The Revenue of Egypt mr/ amount yearly to twelve millions of Livefs,' ( that The Reverw,
is, about one million and two hundred thoufand Pounds Sterling) which muff be 0 / Egypt km
divided into three parts. Five millions of the twelve, are brought into the Graind '
Seignor’s Treafury. Four millions of the forefaid Sum, are employ’d id the main
tenance of the Officers and Souldiers of that Kingdom i And the other three are
defign’d for the rich Prefenr, which the Grand Seignot fends every year to
Media, for the Expences which relates to Religious Worlhip, and to fill the
Cilferns of Arabia, which are fupply’d with Water, brought by Land, many days
Journeys.
Of the five Millions Which are brought into the Seraglio, the greatefi: partis
in Sequins, according to the quantity of Gold , which the Afyftnes bring into
tyft, and the teft m Dutch Rix-Dollars. All is brought together into the Goffers
of the fourth Chamber of the Publick Treafury. But as to the Sequins they
are carried into the Secret Treafury, which it is time for us now to open, and
give the Reader an account of according to the defeription which has" been
made to me thereof, by two men whom their Employments oblig’d to enter into
it often*
CHAR IX
Of the Secret Treaiuty.
‘A 1 : ' : . '• -5 1 ■ *
THE PRINCIPAL HEADS.
[into which few Ter font have accejs.
tty of the Emperonr AmuiAt. Ibmhiin
hts Succejfor, chargd with evil Conduff. The Grand
Seignofs precautions fop the fecurity of his Tredfum
His Liberalities to the Grandees of the Port.
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'Ithin the fourth Chamber of the Treafury, you find a door laid all A Vauttmctcr
f about with good (lore of Iron-bars which opens the firft paffage, to the
place that contains the Grand Seignor’s Secret Treallire. It is never
>_■, - open’d, but when he himfelf has a mind to enter into it; and he do’s
ot enter into it but when the Grand Vizir advertifes him, that it is time for him to
r j 0 fe^hd that there is a confiderable Sum to be carried in. In the firft place, by
tJ J c light of Torches they go down a Stair-Cafe of ten or twelve ftep% at the bottom
tI w ^ ic l 1 > ffter an advancement of feyefi or eight paces further, they find a fecond
fordfy’d with Iron-work as the former, but much lefs, fo that a man is.
ll g d to ftoop ere he go into it. When it is open’d, and that they ha^e made then?
ntiance through it, as if they had pafs’d through a Wicket, they are under a.
yl; u ^5 where they find a great many Coffers, of the fame largencfs, as thofe
me Chamber we came laft out of.