'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.' [‎75] (624/1024)

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A Kektiori of the Grand Seignors Seraglio.
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had caught him to do it. This Perfian Govemour was a man extreaenly cnciin’d
to Debauchery , miomuch that before his perfidious delivery of the Place to
Am nr at as 1 palled through Envan i in one of my Voyages to Petfia he in-
treated me to make my Aboue there for the fpace of fifteen days, and to humor
him, there was a neceility of (pending whole Nights in Drinking, io that flaw
him not all the Day long,, which I queftion not but he employ’d in the manage
ment of his Anairs, and taking Ifis fcpole. ' , ^ 6
Bur, at tne long run, lewd aTions meet with the Punilhment they juftly de- perMwfoeti
km.Jbach-Scfi King of Perfia, would not entertain any propofidon of Peace, ZTd.
roo^r lo much as give audience to an Ambafifador frdm the Grand Seignor
vtfiom I faw fent back from tfiahan, where I rhen was, unlefs ^w^ would de-
deliver up the Tray tor, m order, to his punifhment. Whereupon, they being
both one day at their ordinary debauch* in the Belvedere, the Grand Seignor
without any formality, order'd him to be Strangled, in his prefence. 3
It was fornetirncs alio Amumh s cullome, to bring into that ‘pleafant piace, the Thtfonutie of
Principal, SnltdQ?ffes, as, his Mothers, his Sifters, and fuch others as he had the beauti f ul
greatdt kindnels for. But his moft frequent a ffignations there, was with a Sicilian Slclh ™ Lzd >-
- Lady, for whom he had a great aficffion* and who being extreamly handfome
and ot a mild diipolition, obtain'd of him whatere he defir’d. She was taken ac 1
Sea, by die Py rates of Barbary, as fhe was upon her Voyage into Spain in order to
fier intermarriage with ofie of the Grandees of that Countrey ‘ And the Baffa of
Algiers Acnt hei a Prefent, to the Grand Seignor, who took a particular fancy for '
hei,and made her as happy, as a Woman can be, who muft endure the reftraint of
the Seraglio. .
Freni thatcioor of the Hall, which gives entrance into the Flower-garden, you ^ ^
pafs, on the right hand, into a kind of Gallery, about fifty paces in length and
twdve in breadth, the pavement whereof is a Chequer-work of Black and vVhite chamber z
Marble, at the end of it there is a great StruTure, which is wholly of Marble, \and
what firft entertains the Eye is a pretty lage Door, over which there is a kind
of a fiat arched Roof. And both the Roof, and the Door, are adorn’d with
flowers in embofs’d work; and amongft thofe flowers, there are certain impreffes
cucm the Marble, and all curioufly Gilt. r - ^
Almut five or fix paces from that Door, you come to another not inferiour to it
as to beauty, which is that of the Grand Seignor's own Chamber. Its Cieling, or
arched Roof, is according to the model of the Winter-room, whereof I have given
jjou a Defcdption at the beginning of this Chapter. The only difference between ’em
iVn What ifiues put cf the Angles of the little Arches; and whereas in the other Room
they repre ent the bottoms of Lamps, gilt with Gold 5 in this, they are balls of
tvocic-Lryltal, cut Facet-wife, with an inter-mixture of precious ftones, of different
^olours, which muft needs give a very divertive entertainment to the Eye. The
w i ° V s Cover,d wkh Car P ets 3 which, as to Beauty and Excellency- of
Workmanfhip, exceed ^thofc of the other Chambers; and the fame thing is to
he laid, as to the Quilts, the Counterpanes, and the Cuihions; the moft part of
mis rurniture being adorn'd with an Embroidery of Pearls, and the whole Room
^hichis very ipacious, having in all parts, feveral other fumptuous embellifti-
>F d whereas this Room was Originally defign’d for the Grand Seignor’s
^mmcf-Divertifement, it is accordingly the more lightfome, and has large
rndows on three fides of it. As to the Sultan’s Lodging, he complies with the
cuiiome of the Countrey* or rather that of all the Eaftern parts. There is no Bed-
cad let up, but towards the Evening the Pages fpread three Quilts one upon the
^nei at one of the corners of the Chamber, and place over it a Canopy of Cloth
orUMdj gatmfh’d with an embroidery of Pearls.
Frefc 11 ^ f ^ ll:kand 5 as you *come into this Room, there is a Cub-board, or The Ancient
i rels, wrought Within the verv Wall wn/'r-,- r-i...!. .K.. r? .!—» • j' .. ,r
the* Sra j° l !? h r W j tl , lin t ie Y ei F Wall, where they keep the Bajarac, that is to fay, Veneration fit
mi Which has thefe words for its Imprefs, or Motto, Nafmm mhom ^ s
\JL tn ( ’ . at in our Language, ‘The Affi(lance is from God. This Standard was Standar ^
am/ 111 § ieac veneration among the that when there happen'd
CYn -: l0n 3 eit V er ac Conilantimple, ot in the Armies, there was no fafer or more
Kevl 1 ° l a r ^ m f a F t0 appeafe it, than to expofe that Standard to the fight of the
And tnat very Expedient has many times prov’d very fortunate to the
(L) Ottoman