'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.' [‎68] (617/1024)

(58 A Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio-
oF the Treaiury, and may alio put oil Vefts of Cloth 3 but ma^e after fuch
a fafliion, as makes them eafily diffinguiftiable from the Ichoglans^ of the firft
and fecond Chamber, who are always clad in woollen-cloth. For the Pages
of the Falconry have their Sleeves made narrower, and narrower, from the
Shoulder to the wrift, and they are there fafteh’d dole with Buttons; but
the Sleeves of the Pages of the Treafury, areas wide below, as they are above^
and that makes the difference between them. The twelve Senior Pages of
the Falconry have the fame flaveries and advantages, as the Pages of the Trea
fury, and are their Fellow-Commoners 5 but the other Companions of the for
mer, are treated after the fame rate as the Pages of the Seferlti, who waft
the 'Grand Seighor’s Linnen, and they all common at the fame Table.
The Magnifi- Befides the fore-mentioned Pages, the Grand Faulconer has under his corn
er of the man d near eight hundred other perfons, as well in Conjiantinople as the parts adjacent
2 Tr 27 2 n' thc ^°? P cr P ctua hy employ’d in the ordering and training up of all forts of Birds
C to Hum in? 1 and for the Game, and there come none into the Seraglio, but what are fo or-
Hawhing. deiTl, and taught. Though there may be a very great number of fuch, yet
does not the Grand Seignor make ule of any, but what have fome ftoneof
value about the neck, nay fometimes fuch as may be valued at ten thoufand
Crowns: All the Mahometan Princes are very fumptuons, in all things re
lating to their Game, and particulary the King of Ferfta. Nothing can be
imagin’d riiore Glorious, or Magnificent, than the long Train of the Grandees of
hft Court, when they return from their Sports. They all march in an excellent
order, every one with a Hawke on his Fill, and every Hawke having about
the neck, either a Diamond 1 , or fome other precious (lone, of great value, with the
hood all embroider’d with Pearles 5 which muff needs make a moff delightful fhovv.
The and other inhabitants of the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. , breed up, in order to their
fallow of ^ divertifements, feveral forts of Birds, which the Uurop<ens make no ule of at all,
Vogi in run- and they are of a larger fize, and ftronger, than ours. With thofe, inftead
mngdown a of Dogs, will they run down a Hare, or a Stagge ; and they have alfo the
Veer or Hare, diverfion of hunting the Wild Boar, and other fay age Beafts. But What
makes that- Sport the more delightful is this, that jn Pcrjia^ the Countfey is
all open and champion, and there are no Woods, into which the Hawke,
or other Bird, might get out of their fight- He difeoyers the Beaft at a
great diftance, fallens of a fuddain upon it, fo as that it cannot get loofe
from him, and flicking clofe to the Head, picks out the Eyes of it, vexes,
and torments it, and retards the fwifenefs of its courfe, by which means,
the Huntfman come up the fooner to it, and difpatch it. But they do not
give the fatal blow, till the Prince has order’d them to do it, or till bebas
(hot off an Arrow, or difeharg’d his Fire-lock: upon which fignall, they who
are about him are permitted to exercife their .courage aud dexterity.
Next adjoyning to the Appartment of the Pages belonging to the Falconry,
there is a long Gallery, which is open but of one fide, and in the no°i °j
itj, there is a little afeent. It is fuftain’d by ten Pillars of Marble, of feyera
. colours, and pav’d with a fquare-piec’d work of the fame material ; witn a
Wainfcotage, wherein there are fome flowers painted, but very meanly- - _ .
From the end of the forefaid Gallery, turning on the right hand yee
The Seligdar- come to tide Chamber of the Selidgar Aga, who carries the Sword before .n
H^s cham- Grand Seignor. Some part of that Chamber is cover’d with Carpets, t ■
0I: ber has a Seat or Scaffold, rais’d three foot high, but of a confiderable brea
tor'* Sword 1 .* which they afeend by fo many heps of white Marble, of four foot in length, ,
remainder of which Scat, being divided from the Chamber'by a Ballifler d >
partly gilt with Gold, and partly Green. All within that endofure 01 ^
lifters is cover’d with rich filken Carpers, and all about, as weh [0 r a ||
Wall fide, as to that of the Ballifters, there are fumptuous Cufbions C
forts, of Gold and Silver-Brokadoes. The Walls of the Chamber are a R >
and at equal diftances, there are flower-pots painted, rarely well diver 1
and affording a moft delightful profpeT. The place where the Sdif^r'Ag
is at the corner of that part of the Chamber which is enclos’d with . g
lifters, on the right hand, and over his Head hang the Swords ani
which he carries before the Grand Seignor, wlutmn the Seraguo 5 a
him, when his Highnefs goes out of the Seraglio.