'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.' [‎84] (633/1024)

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,A Relation of the Grand Seignofs Serag
>lio.
The Commerce
between the
Jewefles and
the Sultanefies.
The doleful S to
ry of Two Fa-
tnoui Wrejllers,
And as to the Phyfician, he is never admitted, as 1 laid, but in caie of cxtream
neceffity, into the Appartment of the Women, and with fuch precautions that
he can neither fee the peridn who is dndifpos’d, nor be feep by her, but to feel
her Pulfe through a piece of Lawn, all the other Women having retir’d from
her Bed-fide, and the Negro-Umtichs having taken their places. Thus you fee
what precautions they ufe, to deprive the Women, of the Seraglio, of all means
of having any accefs to Men, or indeed fo much as a light of themand if it J w „
pen that tome Jemfs has enterance into their Quarter, to Trade with them w
to fell them feme little Rarities, they are ftriaiy fearch’d by the Nm-Emucbl left
there Ihould happen to thruft in lome Man, difguis’d in Woman’s cWs ft,
which caie immediate death would enfuc. And when the Curiofity of fome Chm.
an Ladies has inclin’d them to fee the Sultanejfes, they feldome efcap’d without the
receiving of fome affront; and I could produce fome examples of it did Irhint
covenient. ' , : c
It might be imagin’d, that, by the relation of the Jeweffes. it were poflible to
have fome account, of the embelliihmcnts of the Halls and Chambers of theAp
; P^ r ^ nt: the government of that Female Republick. But it is to be noted That
thefe Jemjfes are not permitted to go far into it 5 for there is a Chamber appointed
tor the management of their Traffick, and the Negro-Eunuchs are the Brokers be-
tween them, and the Subwffu. They take cognizance of all, and what the
Arincefles have a mind to buy, paffing, through their hands they make them pav
double and treble what the things are worth, and fo heap up Wealth thouah
they have but little occafion or opportunity to make ufe of it. 3 °
. But I do nor exped, any one fhould wonder at that great exa&nefs of not
permicing any man, no not even a White Eunuch, to approach the Appartmenc
ol the Women, after an Accident, which happen’d at Adnampk, in the Year
of our Lord M. DC XXXIX. and which I lhall here infert in fei words /Z
mh, at his return, after the taking of Bagdet, came and made his abode, for fome
time, at Adrian^ He had a Page, belonging to the Treafury, who was a
INative of locat, in Natolia, and, from the place of his birth, they gave him the
name of focatdi. He was a well-let Young man, rebuff, skillful in W'refiling and
upon that account, the Grand Seignor had made Chief of the Wrefllers. ’
It happen’d, that one of the moil Famous, for that Exercifc, came about
that time to Adnanopk, out of the Confines of Mufcovy, and in all the Ciries, through
which he travel d he had ajwaies been too hard for thofe who had prefemed
them (elves to Wreftle with him. His Keputation was fpread all over the Empire
where he had not met with any Wreffler, who acknowledg’d not himfelf inferiour
to him ; Which Report coming to the Page of the Treafury, he conceiv’d lb great
an emulation at the Fame of that Man, whom all the World fo higly celebrated,
that he fent one of the Hdvagis, to carry him a Civil Challenge from him, and to
acquaint him, That he Was dehrous to have a Tryal of Skill toith him, in the
Grand Seignor s Prefence. He fent him word withal, That, before hisHighhefs
a j ar J7 n0CIC , e °f ICl con venient, they made fome tryal of their ftrehgrh ;
r An l that no body might know any thing of it, he would fend him pBoihntfs
b y which means he might come into the Seraglio. /
When the Grand Seignor is not within the Seraglio, whenever it be the
Boflmgs arc permitted to come into, and to go out of it, by the Garden-Gate;
and there being a great number of them, it is no hard matter to get a man in
? n their accoutrements. By this contrivance did the Mufcovian WreffJer get
into the Seraglio, the next day, upon the follicitation of the Page, who fent him
What was requital; the Grand Seignor being that day, gone a Hunting. Thev
both put on Drawers of Leather well liquor’d with fomc fat or oyly fluff; all the
® the body bung fhuk naked, ana liquord in like manner r and after a long
<1i pute, the Page had the better whether he got ft fairly by his own ftrength, and
“her yielded the viftory, out of complaifance.
1 Ins Action pafs’d in the midft of the place which is before the Garden, in the
P c en,c o the Mutes, and all the Pages of the Seraglio ; and the Grand Seignot
being return J from Hunting, the Saperintendent of the Treafury told him. That
tncre was come into the City, a Pkhhvan, a Mafcovite by Country, rebuff, and o(
a good, mecn, of great ftrength., and well experienced in WrcHling, and that.
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