'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.' [‎83] (632/1024)

A Relation of the Grand Seiqndrs Seraglio.
Night before, and the reft were in a fair Way to follow them. The Prince, not
mov’d at all with that Kemonftrance, made this Reply to the Grand Faulconer,
That, if the Weather proved very hard, they ftiould have a care of his Dogs,
and allow them cloathmg, and other acconimodations, lefl the rigour of the Sea-
(bn might take off any one of them 5 making not the leaf!: mention of, or pro
vision for the men, whom he facrificed to his Divertifement. That rough Re
partee having been fpread among the People, has begot lurch animofity in them
againft this Prince, that there’s no queftion made of his : being fenfible thereof, and
that it is, in fome meafure, the caufe of his keeping fo much at a difiance from
the Metropolis of his Empire, where he does not think Himfelf fecure.
CHAR XVII.
Of the Womens Appartment. -
THE PRINCIPAL HEADS.
The impofpbility of having a full knowledge of the Womens Apgart-
ment^ in the Seraglio. The Commerce between the Jewefles and
the Sultancfles. The doleful Story of Two Famous Wrefliers.
The great Severity of the Sultan-Ammath. Howto difiinguijh
between what is true^ and what fabulous^ in reference to the Sul-
tantflcs. A flrange Story of an Old Woman. Polygamy pre
judicial to the propagation of Children. - The great Secrecy of
the Grand Seignofs Amours.
I Make a Chapter by it felf of the Appartment of the Women, only to The impffibiiu
entertain the Reader, with the impoifibility there is, of having a perfedi fy of having ait
knowledge of it, or getting any exad account, either what the accomodati- account
ons of it are 5 ^or how the Petfons, who are confin’d therein, behave them-^ff ^^
felves. There is not in all Chriffendome anyMonaftery of Religious Virgins,
how regular and auftere foever it may be, the entrance whereof is more firidtly
forbidden to men, than is that of this Appartment of the Women i infomuch that
my white Eunuch, who has futpply’d me with fo particular a defeription of the
inner part of the Seraglio, could give me no certain information of this Quarter
of it, where the Women are lodg’d. All I could geroutof him, was, That the $
Doors of it are kept by Negro-EunUchs, and that, befides the Grand Seignor
nimklf, and fometimes, the Phyfician, in cafe of great needliry, there never
enters any man into h, no nor Woman, befides thoie who live in it, and they
are never -permittied to go out of it, unlefs it be in order to their confinement in
the^Old Seraglio. But we muff except, out of that number, the Sultamjjh^ and
dieir Maids, or Ladies of Honour, whoni the Grand Seignor allows, when he
pk^fes, to come into the Gardens of the Seraglio, and whom he fometimes takes
abfoad with him, into the Country 9 yee fo as that they cannot be. feen by any
perlon whatfoever. Four Negro Eunuchs early a kind of Pavilion, under which
is the Sttkanefp and the Horfe upon which fhe is mounted, all fave only the head
°ftne horfe, which is feen on the out-fide of the Pavilion, the two fore pieces of
taking him about*the Neck, are ciofe faften’d, above, aud
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