n 2 A Relation of the Chap. XV 



good aclions, as chaftifements arc, of bad ones > audit is alio incumbent upon him, to 

 make fpeedy proviiion of all the things they ftand in need of. Over the Door of that 

 ' Chamher, thefe words, La Ilia He Ela, Sec. whereof I have often made mention,are 

 engrav'd in large golden Letters i and at the four corners, are the Names of Maho- 

 met^ four Companions, EboM-bek$r, Omar, Ofman, and Ali, engrav'd in like manner 

 in black Marble. When the Grand Seignor has made a Baffa, and that he is to take 

 his leave of his Highnefs, to go to his Government, he comes out at that Door,wherc 

 all thofe names are engrav'd, and as foon as he is come out, he turns his face again to 

 the Door, and kifTes the Threshold of it, with great humility. 



As foon as you are come into the Chamber, you find on the right hand feveral 

 words of the Law, written, and enchacM, in guilt fquarcs, and one of thefe Wri- 

 tings is, of Sultan Acbmet's, the Father of Amurath. On the left hand, you rind, 

 AntbUMonu. faftend to the Wall, a Coat of Mail, a Head-piece, and a great Buckler \ it is one of 

 mtnt o/Arau- t | ie Monuments of AmuratVs Valour. During the Siege of Bagdet, or Babylon, a 

 rath's Valour. p^ /2 com j n g out f the City, and challenging any one of the Bcfiegers to meet 

 him, that Prince, one of the moft courageous and ftrongeft men of his age, would 

 needs receive him himfelf, without any other Arms, than a Sabre in his hand, though 

 the Perfian was arm'd from head to foot. Amurath who was not only a prodigious 

 Perfon as to itrength, and valour, but alfo well skilPd in the ufe of a Weapon, af- 

 forded him not the time to confider whom he had to deal withal, but immediately 

 gave him fuch a furious blow with the Sabre, over the right moulder, that he cut his 

 coat of Mail quite to the Middle of his Body, and left him dead upon the place. 



Oppofiteto the Haz-Oda, or the Chamber of the forty Pages, there is a Gallery of 

 a confiderable length, and particularly remarkable for its Structure. It is open on 

 both fides, and has, of each, a row of white Marble-Pillars i but it is built after the 

 Serpentine fafhion, and they who walk in it are, every fix paces, out of fight one of 

 the other. There are, under this Gallery four great Preffes, to put up the accoutre- 

 ments of the four Officers, who are always about the Grand Seignor's Perfon, to wit, 

 the Seligdar-Aga, the Cbokadar-Aga, the Requabdar-Aga, and the Hazoda-backi, of 

 whom I have (poken at the beginning of this Relation, when I gave a lift of the 

 Grandees of the Port. 



fttfatuttio* This Gallery, of fo fantaftick and fo extraordinary a Strudure, is not far from that 

 of the Mofqris other. which is a continu'd afcent,and whereof I made mention in the precedent Chap- 

 is Turkey. tcr# Oppofite to this lair, there is a Mofquey, of the middle fort, as to the largenefs, 

 the length of it fomewhat exceeding its breadth, and it Hands North and South, a 

 fituation the Turks obferve in all their Mofquey s,which are always turn'd towards Me- 

 cba, which place is Meridional to all the Provinces of the Empire. There is in the 

 Wall, oppofite to the South, a kind of Neech, which they call Mibrab, into which 

 the Iman, who is their Prieft, gets up, to fay Prayers at the accuftomed hours, and 

 the Grand Seignor is prefent thereat, with the forty Pages of thcHaz-Oda, in a little 

 Room, the Window whereof is oppofite to the Neech. On both fides of the faid 

 Neech, there is a Gallery fuftain'd by rive Pillars, fome whereof are of green Mar- 

 ble, and the reft of Porphyry. And in the Mofquey, and in the Chamber, or Room, 

 into which the Grand Seignor comes to do his Devotions, and in the two Galleries, 

 there's no going but upon rich Carpets. You are not to look for ought of paint- 

 ing there •, nor have the Walls any other Ornament, than that of the whitenefs 

 of the Marble, whereof they are built. But there are a great many Writings,in large 

 ^v^Characters, enchacM in gilt Borders, hanging up in feveral places, and thofe 

 Writings contain only things taken out of the Law of Mabomet. 



The Window of the Chamber, into which the Grand Seignor comes to do his De- 

 votions, is fix foot in length, and three foot high, and has a Lattice, with a Curtain 

 behind it, as it is in feveral Chappels, which our Chriftian Princes have in their Pala- 

 ces, there is alfo oppofite to the fame Neech, before-mentioned, fuch another Win- 

 dow, and fuch another Chamber, for the Sultaneffes, and when the Muezim, whofc 

 ftation is of one fide of the Iman^ and who is as it were his Clerk, hears the draw- 

 ing 



