"مجموعات لرحلات عبر تركيا إلى بلاد فارس، وجزر الهند الشرقية. تقدم تقريراً عن الوضع الحالي لهذه الدول، وكذلك الرواية الكاملة لحرب السنوات الخمس بين أورنكزيب وإخوته في حياة والدهم، بشأن الخلافة. والرحلة البحرية التي قام بها سلطان الامبراطورية المغولية الأكبر (أورنكزيب) مع جيشه من دلهي إلى لاهور، ومن لاهور إلى بيمبر، ومنها إلى مملكة كشمير، والتي يطلق عليها المغول جنة جزر الهند. كما تحتوي أيضاً على سرد لمملكة اليابان وتونكين، وعن سلوكياتهم الخاصة وتجارتهم. يضاف إليها وصفاً جديداً إلى سراي السيجنيور الأكبر، وكذلك لكافة الممالك التي تضم البحر الأسود وبحر قزوين، والتي كان يسافر إليها مونسير تافيرنييه بيرنييه، وغيره من الرجال العظام." [‎٧‎٧] (١٠٢٤/٦٢٦)

A Relation of the
Im* " 1,1 rr ' '
ERAGLIO.
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• 'CHAP. XVI
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of the ordinary Employments of the Grand Seignor ; The
particular inclinations of the Emperour-Regent/ Mahomet IV.
And the prefent State of the Ottoman Family.
THE PRINCIPAL HEADS.
Some inclinations common to all the Monarchs of the Eaftern-parts.
the Life of the Seraglio^ delicious to one fingle Perfon, and in
commodious to many. The Mahometans %ealous observers of
their Larp. The regulated times of their publicly Devotions.
The ordinary Employments of the Grand Seignor. How his
Table is fervd. The Sultan, when obligd to go y in Ceremony-,
to the Mofquey. The wicked contrivances of the Moufti to get
Money. The prefent State of the Ottoman Family. An ex
traordinary Example of a Father and a Son y who were fuccef-
fively Grand Vizirs. The pourtraiture of the Sultan-Regent,
Mahomet. The Ancient Cuflomof the Turkifh Emperors, to
live by their Labour. The Grand Seignor s fnbtilty, in revenging
himjelf of the Moufti
HE Ottoman Monarchs, and generally all the Princes of Afta, what Repu
tation foever they may have gain’d, for their Valour, have'always
been guilty of a bent to Voluptuouinefs, and Effeminacy, and found
great Charms in a flothful kind of life. They come out of their Seraglio’s
as feldome as they can, and that only, when an indifpenfable necellity forces them
to (hew themfelves in publick, whether it be at the head of their Armies, or in,
thofe Ceremonies, wherein the Law, or common Civilities, require their Prefence.
True it is, that fome of them were not fo great Lovers of Retirement as others,
jind preferrV the hardlhips of War, the Divertifefnents of Hunting, before the
bland ifhmems of Eafe, and the converfation of Women : But thofe may be re
duced into a very fmall number, and the greateft part of them being more
addj&ed to mind their quiet, and to lead a Life Void of difturbancc, have tranl-
ted all their concerns, Civil and Military, to the management of the principal
Minifter of State, thinking it enough to content themfelves with the account he
Was pleas’d to give him thereof.
it may be faid of the Seraglio,. That it is a delicate, but withal a folitary place
ot abode: but as to the Obiervations 1 have made of things, it is delicious only to
ahngle perfon, and folitary to .all the reff. Of the many Thoufaqcs, of the Male
OCX, who are there as ’twere in Prifon, and have a dependence, one upon the
other^ none but the Prince bimfelf has the fight of Women 5 for the Negro
Punucns, whom their deformity of Body and Countenance has, in a manner,
transform’d into Monficrs, are not to be admitted into the number of Men.
But though the Otoman Monarchs, and generally all that may be comprehen
ded under the denomination of 'tmeifm, are involv’d in Voluptuoufneff, as not
naving any tindure of ought relating to polite Literature, yet this is particularly
/ CL 1,) recom-
Inclindtwis
common to the
Eajiern Mo
narchs.
The Seraglio a
place delicious
to one fingle
perfon, and in*
commodious to
many.
The Mali u me-
tam jealous
o bfervers of the
Law.