'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.' [‎85] (634/1024)

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A Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio.
if his Highneis pleas’d he fhould have chc fatisfa&ion to fee him engag’d in that
Exercife. The Grand Seignor commanded he fhould be brought into the Sera
glio, the next day, and that T’ocateli fhould have notice, to be ready to entertain
Being both come to the place, and in a condition ready to clofe, the Grand
'Seignor came into a Gallery, attended by all the Grandees of the Seraglio, to be
Spectators of that Tryal of Skill in Wreftling. The Victory having flood as
Were in the ballance a good while, and all Spedators, being fomewhat impatient,
to fee which fide it would turn to, a Mute exprefs’d himfelf by figns, to one of
his Companions, to this efihff. That he wondered the Page, who fhould havo
deriv’d new frrength and courage, from the Grand Seignor s prefence, found it fo
difficult to get the better of the Mufcovite^ whom he had fo cafily woffled the
day before^ ' . 7 .. . :
The language of the Mutes, by figns, is as intiligable in the Seraglio, as if they
had the liberty of fpcaking, and the Grand Seignor, who-underhands it as well
as any of them, as having been accufiom’d thereto from his Infancy,and commonly
difeourfing With them, was hrangly furpriz’d, to underhand that the Uufcovite had
been, the day before, in the fame place. His indignation immediately flufh’d into
his. face 5 he commanded the Wrehlers to give over their Exercife, and’, calling
the Page to hittb he ask’d him, how he had contriv’d that man’s enteranCe into
the Seraglio. The unfortunate focatJi^ who could not deny a thing, which fo many
others were ready to tehifie, acquainted his Highnefs with what had pafs’d; where
upon, the Suit an ^ incens’d at the gteatnefs of his confidence, prevented his making
an end of the Story, by commanding the Bojlangi-hachi to be prefently fent for,
whom he order’d to feizc on the Mnjcovian Wrefller, and fee him receive Five
hundred blows 00 the foies of the Feet, with a Wand or Cudgel; which no doubt
was enough to make him uncapable of exercifing himfelf, for-a good while after.
The Overiecr had Orders, to fee the fame punifhment inflicted upon the Page
iocatdi 5 which was immediately put in execution : the Grand Seignor having, in
the mean time, retir’d into the Appartmcnt of the Women.
It ; as the Opinion of moff about the Seraglip,-that thofe two unfortunate
Wretches would have efcap’d, with the pumTnmcnl of Five-hundred blowes, each
of them, upon the foks of their feet. But the Grand Seignor, who was relolv’d
tb have their lives, and had retir’d, purpofely into the Lodgings of the Women,
to prevent all mediation for their pardon, fent away prefently a fccond Order,
to the B fangi-BacJih, whereby he was commanded to lee the Page bang’d up , in
the Evening, on a Tree, Which is at the Corner of the place where they had
Wreifled, and, ulie. Mufcozite on "another-Tree, which is without the Gate of the
Seraglio.
Some w-: .1 rhe a -r. to think, that thefe two Executions were enough to appeafe Amufkh’s
the Prince’s uidGaa r! on: but it prov’d other wife. The next morning, the Sultan- £r eat Severity,
Amurath fent 'tot the 'Capi-A&d, the chiefeft amongfl the Eunuchs, and the Grand
Maker and Comptroller, of the Seraglio, and commanded, That the GeUad,
who is the common Executioner, fhould alfo give his attendance. Upon the palling
of thefe Orders, all thofe, that were prefent, caff themfelvesat his HighnefTe’sleer, 1
befeeching him to conlidcr, That the Capi-Aga was innocent, that he had not the
leak notice of the confidence of the Page, and that, if it had come to his know
ledge, he would have feverely punifh’d it. The Grand Seignor continuing kill
extrcamly incens’d, could not be appeas’d by all the imreaties and fubmiffions
they made to him, and would have the Capi-Aga^ as Grand Maker of the Sera
glio, to be anfwerable for all thofe that come into it; when, for the good fortune
of chat principal Officer of the S«/Ws Palace, there came in the Mokfii, and the
Seligdar, Chief of tkwPages of the Chamber, who with much ado madea fnife to beg
his pardon. Ycf was not that ganted but in part; for all they could obtain, ex
tended only to ilhe faving of his life; and fo the Grand Scignor order’d him to be v
immeditelv thruk out of the Seraglio, with a charge never to enter again into it,
while he liv’d ; and inkead of the Dignity of BaJJa^ whereto he fhould have been ;
advanc’d, to be reduc’d, to a fmall Pen Ikon of Three lunkircd Afters a day.