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A Relation of the 



Chap.Hl. 



That is to fay, 



There is m other God than God 3 

 Mahomet is fent by God. 



Refoul fignifies fent, which is the greateft Title given bytheTWvfc to 

 their Prophet. 



n „ , . On both fides of that Court there runs a very noble Gallery, the pillars whereof are 

 mttSdT of marble, all along which the Companies of the Janizaries are drawn up, and difci- 

 plin'dj when the Grand Seignor orders them to (hew their activity, and to appear well 

 arm'd, at the arrival of fome Ambalfador, who is to have Audience. 



On the right hand, behind the Gallery, where the Janizaries are drawn up, on the 

 Z>;t/<*«-dayes [that is to fay, upon Council-dayes] are the Kitchins, and the Offices of 

 the Seraglio, diftincl one from the other, and every one ferv'd by its peculiar Officers. 

 Heretofore there were nine of them, but now that number is reduc'd to feaven. Every 

 Office or Kitchin, has its chief Director, or Mafter-Cook, and there is a Superintendent 

 above them all, named the Aksgi-bacbi, who has the command over four hundred 

 Cooks. 



The number of The chiefeft of thefe Kitchins, which is for the Grand Seignior himfelf is called 



th'Xjtchins. Hafmoutbak. 



The Second is called Valede-Suhanum-Moutba^ and is defign'd for the Sultaneffes, 

 as for inftance, the Mother, the Wife, or, to fay better, the Princefs, for whom the 

 Grand Seignor has the greateft kindnefs, and who had the happinefs to bring into the 

 World a Succeffor to the Empire, as alfb for his Sifters and Daughters, 



The third Kitchin, which they call Kifler-Agazinnm-Moutbaki is appointed far the 

 Overfeer of the Appartment of the Women, and the other Negro-Eunuchs who are em- 

 ploy'd about the guarding of them. 



The fourth is for the Capou-Agafi, or Grand Matter of the Seraglio, who has the 

 greateft accefs to the Grand Seignor's Perfon, and whofe Charge ( as I fàid elfèwhere ) 

 generally extends over whatever enters into the Palace. And this Kitchin ferves alfo for 

 the Officers of the Divan. 



The fifth is for the Cbafnadarbacbi^ox the chief Perfon concern'd about the Treafury, 

 and for thofe who are under his jurisdiclion,and obey his Orders. 



The fixth is for the Kilargibachi, or principal Cup-bearer } and thofe who have their 

 dépendance upon him. 



The feaventh and laft, is that of the Sarai-Agafc and of all the Officers, who are un- 

 der his charge. 



Laftly, as for the Boftangis, whofe work lies in the Gardens, they drefs their Meat 

 themfelves, and appoint fome among them to execute that Office, and they provide the 

 Commons for all the reft. There are alfo fome of thefe Bojiangis employ'd in the Offices 

 defign'd for the Grand Seignor. 



the ordinary There enters no Beef into the Kitchins of the Seraglio : but the ordinary confump- 

 meats ferv'd tion of every day, including all, as well thofe who eat within, as without, may a- 

 upin the Serag- mount to Five Hundred Sheep, in which number muft be comprehended Lambs and 

 Kids -, and the greateft part of thofe Sheep, are brought from the Frontiers of Perfia } 

 which Country excels all others, as to that creature. According to this proportion of 



Mutton, 



