86 A Relation of the Chap.XVIL 



Iht cmmtYct It might be imagind, that, by the relation of the Jerpetfes, it were pofllble to have 

 between the f omc account, of the embellishments of the Halls and Chambers of the Appartment of 

 Jewcflcs and ^ g 0vermn ent of that Female Republick. Rut it is to be noted, That thefe Jewejfes 

 the Sultaneflcs. ^ ^ permitted to go far into it s for there is a Chamber appointed for the manage- 

 ment of their Traffick, and the Negro-Eunuchs are the Brokers between them, and the 

 Sultaneffes, They take cogni7ance of all, and what the PrincefTes have a mind to buy, 

 paiTing through their hands, they make them pay double and treble what the things 

 are worth, and fo heap up Wealth, though they have but little occafion or opportu- 

 nity to make ufe of it. 



-t, j / r / c But I do not exped, any one ftiould wonder at that great exactnefs, of not permit- 

 V of Two va- ing any man, no not even a White Eunuch, to approach the Appartment of the Wo- 

 mm mtHUtrs. men, after an Accident, which happen'd at Adriarwple^ in the Year or our Lord 

 M. DC. XXXIX. and which I (hall here infert in few words. AnwrathfX his return, 

 after the taking of Bagdet, came and made his abode, for fome time, at Adrianople. He 

 had a Page, belonging to the Treafury, who was a Native of Tocat, in Natolia^ and, 

 from the place of his birth, they gave him the name of Tocateli. He was a well-fet 

 Young man, robuft, skilful in Wreltling, and, upon that account, the Grand Scignor 

 had made Chief of the Wreftlers. 



It happen'd, that one of the mod Famous, for that Exercife, came about that time 

 to Adrianople, out of the Confines of Mufeovy, and in all the Cities, through which 

 he travell'd, he had alwaies been too hard for thofe who had prefented themfclvcs to 

 Wreftle with him. His Reputation was fpread all over the Empire, where lie had not 

 met with any Wreftler, who acknowledg'd not himfelf inferiour to him ■•> Which Re- 

 port coming to the Page of the Treafury, he conceived fo great an emulation at the 

 Fame of that Man, whom all the World fo highly celebrated, that he fent one of the 

 Halvagh*, to carry him a Civil Challenge from him, and to acquaint him, That he was 

 dciirous to have a Tryal of Skill with him, in the Grand Seignor's Prefence. He fent 

 him word withal, That, before his Highnefs had any notice of it, 'twere convenient, 

 they made fome tryal of their ftrength •■> And that no body might know any thing of 

 it, he would fend him a Bojiangis Garment and Cap, by which means he might come 

 into the Seraglio. 



When the Grand Seignor is not within the Seraglio, where ever it be, the Bojiangis 

 are permitted to come into, arid to go out of it, by the Garden-Gates and there be- 

 ing a great number of them, it is no hard matter to get a man in under their accou- 

 trements. By this contrivance did the Mnfcovian Wreftler get into the Seraglio, the 

 next day, upon the follicitation of the Page, who lent him what was requiilte ■■> the 

 Grand Seignor being, that day, gone a Hunting. They both put on Drawers of Lea- 

 ther, well liquor 'd with fome fat or oyly fturT, all the reft of the body being ftark na- 

 ked, and liquor'd in like manner: and after a long difpute, the Page had the better, 

 whether he got it fairly by his own ftrength, and skill, or that the other yielded the 

 victory, out of complaliance. 



This AcTion pafs'd in the midft of the place which is before the Garden, in the pre- 

 fence of the Mutes, and all the Pages of the Seraglio •, and the Grand Seignor being re- 

 tum'd from Hunting, the Superintendent of the Treafury told him, That there was 

 come into the City, a Pebtivan, a Mufcovite by Country, robuft, and of a good meen, 

 of great ftrength, and well experienced in Wreftling, and that if his Highnefs pleas'd, 

 he ftiould have the fatisfa&ion to fee him engag'd in that Exercife. The Grand Seig- 

 nor commanded he ftiould be brought into the SeragUo, the next day, and that Torca* 

 teli ftiould have notice, to be ready to entertain him. 



Being both come to the place, and in a condition ready to clofe, the Grand Seignor 

 came into a Gallery, attended by all the Grandees of the Seraglio, to be Spectators of 

 that Tryal of Skill in Wreftling. The Victory having ftood as 'twere in the ballance 

 a good while, and all the Spectators, being fomewhat impatient, to fee which lide it 

 would turn to, a Mute exprefs'd himfelf by llgns, to one of his Companions, to this 



erfed, 



