70 A Relation of the Qup.XlV. 



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the Treafury, are as wide below, as they are above, and that makes the difference be- 

 tween them. The twelve Senior Pages of the Falconry have the fame ilavcries and ad- 

 vantages, as the Pages of the Treafury, and" are their Fellow-Commoners i but the 

 other Companions of the former , are treated after the fame rate as the Pages of the 

 Sef'erlis 9 who wafti the Grand Seignor's Linnen, and they all common at the fame 



Table. 



The Magnifi- Befides the fore-mentioned Pages, the Grand Faukoner has under his command 

 cence of the near eight hundred other perfons, as well in Conjiantinople as the parts adjacent there- 

 Ottoman Vrin- to, perpetually employ'd in the ordering and training up of all forts of Birds for the 

 ctsfo re {*f* M . Game, and there come none into the Seraglio, but what are fo order'd, and taught. 

 iLjrtaJf. a Though there may be a very great number of fuch, yet does not the Grand Seignor 

 make ufe of any, but what have fome fionc of value about the neck, nay fometimes 

 fuch as may be valued at ten thoufand Crowns. All the Mabumetane Princes are very 

 fumptuous , in all things relating to their Game, and particularly the King of Perfia. 

 Nothing can be imagined more Glorious, or Magnificent , then the long Train of the 

 Grandees of his Court, when they return from their Sports. They all march in an 

 excellent order, every one with the Hawke on his Flit, and every Hawke having about 

 the neck, cither a Diamond, or fome other precious (tone, of great value, with the hood 

 all embroider'd with Pcarles > which mult needs make a moit delightful ihow. 



, r Hf;> iy in£ The furkfi and other inhabitants of the Levant, breed up, in order to their diver- 

 tht place of tifements, feveral forts of Birds, which the Europeans make no ufe of at all, and they 

 Dogs,™ run- are of a larger fize, and ltronger, then ours. With thofe, inftead of Dogs, 'will they 

 ning down i run down a Hare, or a Stagge j and they have alfo the diverfion of hunting the Wild 

 D«r, or Hire. Boar? an( j ot j 1Cr f avagc Beafts. But what makes that Sport the more delightful is this 

 that in Perfia, the Countrey is all open and champion, and there are no Woods, into 

 which the Hawke, or' other Bird, might get out of their fight. He difcovers the Beaft 

 at a great diitance, fattens of a fudden upon it, fo as that it cannot get loofe from him, 

 and, iticking clofe to the Head, picks out the Eyes of it, vexes, and torments it, and 

 retards the fwiftnefs of its courfe, by which means, the Huntfmen come up the fooner 

 to it, and difpatch it. But they do not give the fatal blow, till the Prince has ordered 

 them to do it, or till he lias (hot off an Arrow, or difcharg'd his Fire-lock: upon 

 which fignall, they who are about him are permitted to exercife their courage and dex- 

 terity. 



Next adjoyning to the Appartment of the Pages, belonging to the Falconry, there 

 is a long Gallery, which is open but of one iide, and in the floore of it, there is a little 

 afeent. _ It is fuifkin'd by ten Pillars of Marble, of feveral colours, and pav'd with a 

 fquare-piecM work of the fame material ■■> with a Wainfcotage, wherein there are fome 

 flowers painted, but very meanly. 



ne Seligdar- ^, Fr T th r ? d pf ? C forefaid G * ]kl ^ tuniin S on the ri g h ^ hand, you come to the 



AgaV chmbt-; Chamber of the Sdidgar-Agt, who carries the Sword before the Grand Seignor. Some 



who carries the part of that Chamber is cover'd with Carpets, the other has a Seat or Scaffold rais'd 



Grandstigntr's three foot high, but of a confiderable breadth, to which they afcend by fo many fteps 



sword. ot white Marble, of four foot in length, the remainder of which Seat, being divided 



trotai the Chamber by a Balliiter'd work, partly gilt with Gold , and partly Green 



All within that enclofure of Ballifters is cover'd with rich filken Carpets, and all about' 



as well to the Wall fide, as to that of the Ballifters , there are fumptuous Cufhions of all 



forts, of Gold and Silvcr-Brokadoes. The Walls of the Chamber are all gilt, and at 



equal difrances, there are flower-pots painted, rarely well diveriify'd , and affording; a 



molt delightful profped. The place where the Sdidgar-Agi fits, is at the corner of 



that part of the Chamber which is cnclosM with the Balliaers, on the right hand and 



over his Head hang the Swords and Sabres, which he carries before the Grand Seizor' 



within the Seraglio-, and after him, when his Highnefs goes out of the Seraglio. 



The txciUent Moon as a Prince is come to the Crown, whatever he ordinarily wears, is never re- 



**,?&£. TP nt °r hQ ?f?V n l aft f "* deatH : M the CMwi^^who is the 

 ' S g ° verfeer **#> hnds ^7 his Reglftries, whether all the things that were taken out of 



the 



