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A Relation of the Chap. XIII. 



The C a uf?s of 

 the abominable 

 Sin committed 

 by the Turks 

 irbo an con- 

 fined within 

 the Seraglio. 



But it were to be wihYd, that they would not fo much concern themfclves in keep- 

 ing thofe places fo clean, provided they could forbear polluting them with thole de- 

 ferable impurities, which I Ihould gladly have left unmention'd, did I not tear the 

 reproach might he made to me, of my having been defective in point of exadnefs. 

 I have already faid fomething of it, in the Second Chapter of this Relation, and it is a 

 fubjed, which is to be ilightly pail over, that fo there may be but impcrfed hUas left 

 of it. It is therefore in thofe places, that the Pages make their nodurnal aflignations, 

 in order to the committing of the worlt of all crimes, which yet they find it very dif- 

 ficult to put in execution, becaufe they are fo narrowly watch'd \ and if they are taken 

 in the very ad, they are punilhM with fo great feverity, that fomcrimes they are even 

 drubb'd to death i of which chamfement, I have eliewhere given an account. In like 

 manner, to prevent die committing of that infamous ad, in the places where they take 

 their repofe, there are two Torches lighted, which lalt all the Night, and three Eu- 

 nuchs are everaud anon going their Hounds, by which means the Pages are depriv'd 

 of the opportunities, which otherwife they might have, to offend. 



But we need not go far, to find out the Source of this Evil : the ftridnefs of the 

 reitraint they arc in, and their being depriv'd of the light of Women, induce thofe 

 Young Men to pra&ife ilich defilements, and hurry the Toriy into a Gulph, to which 

 they, by an execrable pailion, are, naturally but too much inclinable. The Ichoqlans, 

 who are brought very young into the Seraglio,know not what a Woman is.but by the 

 inltind of Nature \ and there are fome of them, who,for one day's light and enjoy- 

 ment of a Woman, would be content to dye the next. All thofe Nations generally 

 have fo great a bent to lubricity, that it fcems impcflible they fhould quit it, but with 

 their lives : what they cannot do one way, they endeavour to do another •, and they 

 of the Seraglio do all they can to elude the infpedion of their Overfecrs. The Reader 

 may call to mind the Adion of the two Pages, who hid themfclves in the Mofquev, 

 a: ... tl at (ingle Example is enough, to (hew, how they feck out all the wayes imagin- 

 able, to fatishe their brutifh pallion. 



The Quarter of the Kafnadar-bacbi, as alio that of his Companion, or Subftimte, is 

 adjoyning to that. of the P^rr of the Trcafury, and from their Chambers, they have 

 a Profped into a little Flower-Garden, which belongs to them. We have yet fome 

 other Chambers to view, before we come to that, which the) call the Uaz-Odajuhkh 

 is the Appartment of the Forty Pages of the Chamber, and the entranee to that of the 

 Grand Seignor. 



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