Chap, VI. Grand Seignor' s Seraglio. 



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Seignor's fecret Appartment. Here, the Icboglans, who have endur'd hardthip fo ma- 

 ny years in the three firit Chambers, begin to take breath, arid to be allow'd more 

 liberty. They are permitted to converfe with all Perfons within the Seraglio, aud they 

 have the advantage of frequent approaches to the Prince's Perfbn, to whom they make 

 themfelvcs known, and from whom they ever and anori receive favours, j 



Under the Gate of the third Court, where à certain number of Eunuchs are upon "At Quarters 

 the Guard night and day, there is a pafTage ort the left hand which leads into a little ^Jj™ 

 Gallery, out of which there is an entrance into the Appartment of the Capou-Agafi -, 

 and when the great Gate is open, it hides that pafTage, into which a rnan cannot en- 

 ter but with fome difficulty. 



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A little further, arid on the right .hand of the Hall of the Audience, fonds the Apr 

 partment of the Strax-Agafi, who is to take care for the keeping of the Seraglio clean 

 and in good order i and a little farther yet, near a little Mofquey, where the Icho- 

 glans of the three firrt Chambers go to their Devotions, lies the Quarter of the Sefer- 

 who are an hundred and fifty of the Icboglans, or thereabouts, particularly ap- 

 pointed for the Walhing of the Grand Seignor's Linneii. When he goes into the Coun- 

 try, the raoft antient among them are of his Retinue -, and there muft be comprehend- 

 ed in that number, fuchas play on Timbrels, aud the other Inftrumental Muficians, 

 who have the fame appointments with the reft. 



Let us now eriter into the Hall of Audience, which is a Quarter as 'twere indepen- 

 dent from others, and where the Grand Seignor receives Forein AmbafTadors. 



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CHAP. V Î. 



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Of the Hall wherein the Grand Seignor gives Au- 

 dience to Forein Ambafladors, and the manner 

 how they are receiv'd. 



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The Principal Heads* 



The defcription of the Hall of Audience. U^e Grand Seignor* s 

 Throne. The manner holo Amhaffadors are receiVd. Remarks 

 upon the number of Vestments which the Çrand Seignor orders to he 

 hesloTfr'don the Amhaffadors of Chriftian Princes. The form of 

 the Oath of Allegiance, Ttfhich the Cham of the Lejfer Tàrtary 

 comes to take ax the fame place. 



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^He Third Court of the Seraglio, wherein we now are, is far From being' The Hall of 

 fo regular, as the precedent, and the Structures within fufficiently difco- Audhnct ad 

 ver, that the perfons, by whom it was built, minded mot the obfèrvance f crtbe ^ 

 of any Order in the doing of it. When you are at the Gate of this Court, 

 you have juft oppofite to you a little Appartment, not adjoyning to the 



others, at the entrance of which you find, on both fides, a Fountain iffuing out of 

 Wall, the Water whereof is receiv'd into two Bafins or Cifterns : And 'tis in this 

 Appartment that the Hall of Audience ftands. 'Tis an arqhed Structure noble enough 

 in its kind, fuftain'd by Marble Pillars, and there is yet to be feen in the midft of it, 



(F i) a final 



