A Relation of the Grand Seignors Seraglio. 9 



The Chiamcibachi is the grand Laundry-man, or the Principal of thole, who walh 

 and order the Grand Seignor's Linnen. 



The Giritbey is the chief Director of thofewhoare exercis'd in (hooting with the 

 Bowe, and calling the Dart.Tlufe cwo Exercifes are much pra&is'd every Friday , in a 

 place of the Seraglio-, appointed for that Divertifement.Thus have you,in few words, an 

 account of whatever relates to the principal Charges of the Seraglio, poiTefs'd by thofe 

 who have pafs'd through the Chambers of the Ichoglans. 



The Blacky or Negro-Eunuchs, of whom I have but a word more to fay, additional- 

 ly to what 1 have intimated before, are appointed to guard the Appartment of the 

 Women, and they make choice, for that Office, of the molt deformed and the moft 

 JEfopica], that can be found. They are all cut even with the belly, ever fince the time 

 of Solyman the Second, who being one day in the fields, and feeing a Gelding offer- 

 ing to leap a Mare, inftrr'd thence, that the Eunnchs, who kept his Wives, might 

 likewife endeavour to fatistie their pallions => for which he bethought himfelf of a pre- 

 fent remedy, by ordering them to have all cut off i and his SuccelTors have fince ob- 

 ferv'd that Rule. There is a great number of thofe Negro-Eunuchs, and they have 

 their variety of Chambers, and their Regulations, as the whice ones have. I fay no- 

 thing here of their different Employments, and the Reader will find, in the Chapter, 

 concerning the Appartment of the Women, all can be known, that's certain upon that 

 Subject. 



The Kifhr-Agafi, or, as others name him, the Kuezer-Agafi,^ which is as much, \n The credit and 

 our Language, as to fay, the Guardian of the Virgins, is the chiefeft of all the Negro- wealth of the 

 Eunuchs, and is of equal authority and credit with the Capi-Aga, who is the Supreme Kiflar-Agafi s 

 of the white Eunuchs. The former is the Overleer of the Appartment of the Wo- 

 men, has the Keys of the Doors in his cuttody, and has accels to the Emperor when t fimM 

 he pleafes himfelf. The charge he is poiTefs'd of brings him in Prefents from all parts i 

 and there are not any fuch made to the SultannelTes, by the Bajfas, and other Per- 

 fons, who itand in need of their favour, in reference to the Sultan, but there comes 

 along with it one to himiclf, which makes him one of the richeft and moft confidera- 

 ble Officers, belonging to the Seraglio, 



" I come now to the Azamoglans, who make the fécond Order of young Lads,where= 

 with the Seraglio is repkniih'd, and out of whofe number they take fuch as are de- 

 fign'd for mean Officers, of whom Ilhall give you the Lift. 



The Azamoglans, as well as the Ichoglans, are, as I faid before, Tributary Children, 

 taken away from the Chriftians, or made Captives, by Sea, or Land. They make 

 choice of the hand fomeft, the belt (hap'd, and molt robuft, for the Seraglio, and they 

 have neither wages nor allowances of any profit, unlefs they be advane'd to fome final! 

 Employments. Nor can they attain thofe, till after many years Services, and what is 

 then allow'd them does not amount to above four Afpers and a half per diem. As for 

 thofe who are brought up in other places, under the fimple denomination of Azamo- 

 glans, and are not received into the Seraglio ziConjl antinople, their fortune can amount 

 no higher, than to become Zamzarics. 



When thefe young Boys are brought up to Conji antinople, the firft diftribution which 

 is made of them is into the Seraglio's, or R.oyal Houfes of the Grand Seignor : there 

 are fome of them left in the City, to be put to Trades -, and others are fent to Sea, 1 to 

 ferve for Seamen, and fo gain experience in Navigation, by which means they capaci- 

 tate themfelves for fome Employments. But to confine our difcourfe to the Azamo- 

 glans receiv'd into the great Seraglio, they are employ'd in feveral Offices, and fome 

 of them are made Bojlangk, fome Capigis, fome AtagU, fome HuJvazjs, and fome, Bal- 

 tagU i which terms I lhall explicate to the Reader in as few words as I can. 



The Boftangis are they who are employ'd in the Gardens of the Seraglio, our of 

 whole number they take out thofe who are to row in the Grand Seignor's Brigantines, 

 tvhen he has a mind to divert himfelfin fithing, or take the air upon the Canal. They 



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