A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1583. 



the chauses aforesayd, and sate him downe in an inner ' 



roome. This place where he sate was against the gate 



where we came in, and hard by the Councell chamber 



end, somewhat on the left side of the Court, this was 



at the East end of the Court, for we came in at the 



West. All this time our presents stood by us untill 



we had dined, and diner once ended, this was their 



order of taking up the dishes. Certaine were called 



in, like those of the Blacke gard in the Court of 



England, the Turks call them Moglans. These came 



in like rude and ravening Mastifs, without order 



or fashion, and made cleane riddance : for he whose 



hungry eye one dish could not fill turned two, one 



into the other, and thus even on the sudden was 



made a cleane riddance of all. Then came certaine 



chauses and brought our gentlemen to sit with the 



Ambassadour. Immediatly came officers & appointed 



Janisers to beare from us our presents, who caried 



them on the right side of the Court, and set them hard 



by the doore of the Privy chamber, as we call it : there 



all things stoode for the space of an houre. Thus the 



Ambassadour and his gentlemen sate still, and to the 



Southward of them was a doore whereas the great Turke 



himselfe went in and out at, and on the South side of that 



doore sate on a bench all his chiefe lordes and gentlemen, 



and on the North side of the West gate stood his gard, 



in number as I gesse them a thousand men. These men 



have on their heads round cappes of mettall like sculles, 



but sharpe in the toppe, in this they have a bunch of 



Ostridge feathers, as bigge as a brush, with the corner or 



edge forward : at the lower end of these feathers was 



there a smaller feather, like those that are commonly 



worn here. Some of his gard had smal staves, & most 



of them were weaponed with bowes and arrowes. Here 



they waited, during our abode at the Court, to gard their 



Lord. After the Ambassadour with his gentlemen had 



sitten an houre and more, there came three or foure 



chauses, and brought them into the great Turkes 



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