'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.' [‎82] (631/1024)

82 A Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio.
Arcift, in the making of Tooth'picks, and other iimil iniftuments oi Tortoiic-
fheiiAnd that it were requifice that fo Laudable a Cuftom fhould not belolt,
fince it gave the People occahon to do the like, and fo to avoid Idknels. ’
He further Remonftrated to his Highnels> That it was much more commen
dable in the fight of men, and more acceptable to God, tor him co live by the
Labour of his hands, than by the fweat of the People, and the Money grifing by
Impofitions, which were forbidden by the Law: and that what Was allotted for
the peculiar Diet of his Predeceffors, was the produdt of their own handy-work :
That true it was indeed, they were not oblig’d to any affiduity in the Employments
they had fancied, but that what they did was as much for their own divedion,
as to fatisfic the Precept of the Law * and when they had finifhki fome piece of
Work,, theyTent it to fome Balia, for whom they had a particular kindnefs, and
he receiv’d h with^ extraordinary refped, and abundance of joy ; That he, who
was the Bearer of it, when he came to preient it, faid. That Piece of Work, was
made by the Grand Seignor himfelf, who had lent him to Sell it, in order to his
own fuffenance: And that the Balia, or other Perfon, to,whom it Was direfted,
to exprefs how highly he was pleas’d therewith, gave him a certain number of
Purfes for it 5 not accounting the Prefent which was to be made to the Bearer:
That what Money came in that way, was defign’d to bear the Charges of the
Prince’s own Table, and by that means, he.: could not be charg’d with living by
the Labour of his Subjeds.
To^ this effed was the Mouftfs harangue § and I fhall tell you by the way, That
the Kings of Perfia have the fame Cufiome, dr rather the fame Suptrfdion. Un
the Reign of Shach-Ab^ there Were built, at Iftahan ^ certain ~ Piaccs called
Caravanferas ^ which are publick houfes, where the 'Merchants are lodg’d, the
Rents whereof ire let afide for the maintenance of the King’s own Table ; the
Money which is raisd by the Cuftoms, and other Impofitions, beihg accounted
as to that fcore, for Haram^ that is to fay, for ttnjiifl and forbidden^ and referv’d
to be employed in the Exigencies of State, and. not for the Suflenance of the
Prince.
The Sultan k The Grand Seignor difTembling and fmotherlng the vexation, into which the
, vZffiflb Moufti's Remonftrance had put him, pretended to take his Advertifements very
Moufti. C kindly, and difpos’d himfelf to fatisfie him, in a fhort time, how well he could
make his advantage of the Ledure he had read him. He acknowledg’d, that he
r t .-v? w ^ at P e re pi'6fented to him, and that he had a way
of Livelihood in his head, vdiich he hop’d would take very well. Some days pals’d
away, ere the Grand Seignor made the leaf!: mention of Hunting; but at laff,
he grows impatient, he leaves the Seraglio, and had the good fortune to kill a Hare
with a Gun, the firfl he had ever deftroy’d that way. He immediately fends it to
the Mufti, with order to tell him, That he has follow’d his Advice, and that
having learnt the Profeffion of a Huntfman, he has commanded that firft piece of
his Game fhould be brought to him, which he was willing to fell, that he might
fubfifl: by the Money it fliould produce : That he fail not to give twenty Purfes to
him who brings it; and that as to his own Perfon, he knew well enough what he
ought to fend him. v ' . v
The Moufti conceal’d hisfurprizal as well as he could, and receiv’d the Hare
with great teflimonies of his refentments and joy, of the honour, which his High-
nefs had done him; and having beftow’d, according to his own order. Twenty
Purfes upon the Bearer of the Hare, fends Sixty more to the Grand Seignor him
felf ; learning, at his own Coft, and that to the value of Fourfcore thoufand:
v Crowns, that men fhould not be over-forward to give their Sovereigns thofe Ad-
vertifements, which they defire not of them.
To finifh the Pourtraiture of Suhan-Mafomet, he is further chargeable with a de-
fed of conftancy, in his humour, and a roughnefs of deportment towards h>s
People, who are thereupon apnxphave the lefs Afiedion for him. And whereas
he is indefatigable in his Kunting-Exercifes, and fpends whole dales therein, even
in the fevereff part of the Winter-Seafon, it happen’d, one day, as he Was returning
home, from the Sport of running down a Stag, that his Grand Faulconer took
the boldnefs to reprefent to him the inconvenience of expofing his Slaves fo much
m the Ice and Snow, by which means there had dy’d about Thirty of them the
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