'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.' [‎63] (612/1024)

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nors Seraglio.
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CHAP. XIII.
Of the Cap-Bearers Quarter, and of divers other
> Appartments.
the principal heads.
'The Ancient Cujlom pr acf is d'when the Grand Seiopor
is prefented with any thing to drin\, between Meals.
A way to quench thirft at Meals, wholly particular to
the Levantines. The compofition of Treacle. A
finely fervice of Gold-Plate. Beds according to the
Turkifh mode. Ways to fatisfe the Necejftics of Na
ture different from ours. The Caufes of the abomi
nable Sin committed by the Turks^ who are confin’d
within the Seraglio.
Have difcover’d many things particularly obfervable, concerning the Trea-
iury of the Ottoman Monarchy and there are yet foine very Remarkable
pallages to be communicated, relating to the other Quarters of the inner
part or the Seraglio.
Between the Trealury, and an obicure Vaulted Gallery 3 in length between Fifteen
and twenty paces, which conducts you to an Iron- Door, by which there isapaflage
into the Gardens, you find, on the left hand, the Appartment of the pages of the Kilar,
ortae Cup-Bearers Office. That is the place where they prepare the Sherbets, and
omer Liquors,for the Grand Seignor’s own drinking,and where they keep the Wine, The Ancient
a Happens, that he drinks any, as Sultan Amurath did, of whom I have often had cuftome pra-
occaiton to fpeak. Tis an ancient Cuffome, That when the Grand Seignor calls for when thl
MiTri d r nk bccween ^ eaJ ?3 every time he ib calls, coils him ten Stqmw, or Che-
ffj JM c . ere , mon y obfervd therein is this: In the Chamber call’d the Hkd mJ s .
rZ y 7 e ich ls , the Appartment of the Forty pages, who are alwaves near the
5eisnors ?^ fol ? 3 thereis perpetually one of them (landing Scentinelaf
^ nmCC ‘’ w hich leads to the Cup-Bearer’s Office, where two pages of the
h lter i arc n in r bke manner u P on Reentry. When the Grand Seignor
r 1PT1 Q ’ {’ ari d calls for water, the Page of the Haz-Oda^ immediately makes a
Cnn P, C tV ^ 1 of c . hc Kllar ' oi whom one advances up to the Kilar-haehL or
the Pn . aiei Ilin ^ el B. cr yi n g °nt Sou^ which fignifies Water^ to advertife him, that
the e W ° 11 d mk and the other runs to the door of the Haz-Oda, where
Tre^ I i an ? !e ! lc r^. f ie Forty Pa § es B lves him Ten Sequins. That Page is the
Seionor CC .v , c Chamber, and he pays the fmall Sums which the Grand
- • i< ^ er % an Office which might be call’d in Englifh^ The Treafurer
\p'”ff nts ' r ^he Water is fometimes brought in a Cup of Gold, Lome--
‘' a veilel of Pourcclain, placed upon a large Server of Gold, about