'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.' [‎64] (613/1024)

64 ./i Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio.
two foot diameter, and enrich’d with Precious Stones within and Without. That
is look’d on, as one of the richeft pieces of Plate belonging to the Seraglio. The
principal Cup-Bearer, who is a white Eunuch, carries it with great Ceremony
attended by a hundred Pages of the K//*r, whom he ordinarily has under frs
Charge, and upheld under the Arms by two of them, who Walk on both fides
of him. For it % requir’d, That he fhould carry it lifted up above his head and
fo he cannot fee bis way but by looking under it. When he is come to the boor
of the Hsz Oddj the Pages of the Kilar, who have accompany’d him fo far, Wf s
no further, lave only the two who uphold his Arms, and the Pages of the Chanp
ber go along with him quite into the Grand Seignor’s Prefence. But when they
come to the door of the Chamber, two of the more ancient among them take
the places of the two Pages of the Kilar, and complcat the conducing of the Kitam.
daebi, under the Arms, to offer the Cup to the Prince. When he has not any
thing to fay to him, he carries it back again into the Hilar *, but if he will take his op
portunity to entertain him with fome Affair, .he delivers the Cup and the Server
inct) the hands of one of the Pages, who led him under the Arms, and he delivers
it to thofe, who, belonging to the Cup- Bearer’s Office, waited there in expedhtioa
of his return.
A way to
quench third
at meabjvholly
particular to
the Levantines.
2 he Comp ofition
of TrcKk.
A Jlately fer-
vice of Gold
Plate,
’Tis in the fame place, to wit, that under the over- fight of the Cup-bearer, they
keep all forts of rcfrefhing and cooling. Waters, as that of Peaches, Cherries
Rafpices, and fueh other fruits. The Turkr do not drink during their refedhon,
that is, not till they have given over eating •, and becaufe it is poihble they may
be dry, whilff they eat; take here the manner how they quench that thirff.
They are ferv’d at Table with th'efe Waters, in great Cups or Poured aim, which
hold about two Quarts, and the better to diftinguifh them, they pot into every
one of thofe Cups, fome of the fame fruit, from which the Water that is therein
had been ex traded, and which they had preferv’d for that purpofe. Every one
has lying by him a Wooden fpoon, which holds three or four times as much
as any of our ordinary ones, and whereof the handle is of a length proportio
nable: for as to Gold and Silver fpoons, it is not their cuffome to ufe any. With
thofe fpoons, they can take out what is in the Cups, according to the Water
which they mofi fancy, and fo they fufpend thirft, taking ever and anon fomc
fpoonfuls of it.
It is alfoin the Cup bearers Appartment that the Trwk is made,, which the
call tiriak-Fari^ and there is a great quantity of it made, becaufe they ufe it
as an Univerfal remedy, and charitably bellow it on all forts of people, as well
in City as Country, who are defirous of it. The Vipers which are us’d in this
clbmpofition are brought out of Egypt , and they make no account of thofe which
efrher Countries afford, or they are cf opinion at leaf!, that thie former are much
the better for that purpofe.
Before the Appartment of the Kilar^ there is a Gallery whereof the floor is pav’d
with iquare pieces of Black and White Marble, and fuftain’d by eight fair Pillars
of White Marble^ and at the end of it is a little Quarter, where the principal
Cup-bearer has his pefidcnce. There alfo are the Lodgings of his Subftitute, the
Kuarouet-houdafi, who is not an Eunuch, as the Kilargi bachi is, and who, at his
removal out of the Seraglio, is ordinarily advanc’d to the charge ofa The
KilargGbacbi has in his cuftody aii'the Gold and Silver-plate, thc r Bafins, the Ewers
the Bowls, the Cups, the Servers, and the Candlefticks, the greateft part of that
fervite being garnifti’d with Diamonds, Rubies and Emeralds, and other precious
Stones of value* As for golden Difhes and Candlefticks, without any additional
embellifhments of precious Stones, there are fome fo large, and lb mafly, that there
muft be two men to carry one of them. Thefe Candlefticks are made after a
fafhion quite different from ours. They are ordinarily two or three Foot h fgh, tipon
a Bale of above twelve inches Diameter, and the upper part thereof is as ’twere a
Box or kind of Lamp, with its beak, and it may contain above a pound of l uct *
’Tis to prevent the fall of any thing upon tffe Carpet, that they make the foot 0
the Candleftick fo large as I told you; apfd beliefs, it is requisite, that it
bear fome proportion to the height. Tffe match, or wieke, which they pu| int ^
the Suet, beaten into fmall bits, is about the bignefs of a Man’s thumb, and con
fe$*ently muft needs make a great light iq the keem. As to the KiUrtput-w*