■Ctaap.HI. Grand Seignor's Seraglio. 25 



CHAP. III. 



Of the fécond Court, wherein are the little Stables, 

 the Kitchins, and the Divan. 



The Principal Heads. 



A fquare and ffaciom Court, and its Embellishments. 

 The Janizaries extremely Jf rightful \ aUive y and well 

 order'd. The number of the Kitchins, The ordi- 

 nary dishes of meat that are fervd up in the Seraglio. 

 The way of ordering the Pilau. A particular way 

 of roafling in the Levant. The Turks cannot en- 

 dure the Hare. Conferves of all forts. Several com- 

 posions of Sherbet. Receptacles for all the wa- 

 ters of the Seraglio. The little Stables. The Quar- 

 ter of the Eunuchs. 



Ut of the firft Court, into which the Bafas and Grandees of the Port, may 

 come on Horfe-back, and where they are oblig'd to alight, if they intend 

 to go any further, there is an entrance into another, through a fécond 

 Gate, kept, as the former, by fifty Capigis. The fécond Court, much 

 more noble, and more delightful, then that whereof we gave you the pre- 

 cedent defcription, is neer three hundred paces fquare, and only the walks, leading to 

 the feveral Appartments, are pav'd, the reft being in Grafs-plots, planted about with 

 Cyprefs, and water'd by Fountains, with rails all about, to hinder people from go- 

 ing upon the grafs. Ovér the gate of that Court, may be feen thefe words, written in 

 great golden Characters. 



La lllahk Ilia Alla y 

 Muhammed ^efoul AU4,, 



that 



