jo A Relation of the Chap.XlV. 



the Treafury, are as wide below, as they are above, and that makes the difference be- 

 tween them.' The twelve Senior Pages of the Falconry have the fame llaveries and ad- 

 vantages, as the Pages of the Treafury, and are their Fellow-Commoners -, but the 

 other Companions of the former , are treated after the fame rate as the Pages of the 

 Seferlps, who wafh the Grand Seignor's Linnen, and they all common at the fame 

 Table. 



n Marniû- Befides the fore-mentioned Pages, the Grand Faulconer has under his command 

 dice of the near eight hundred other perfons, as well in Conftantinople as the parts adjacent there- 

 Ottoman Vrin- to, perpetually employ'd in the ordering and training up of all forts of Birds for the 

 ces hrelatien c amei an d there come none into the Seraglio, but what are fo order 'd, and taught. 

 to Hunting and y hoU g h there may be a very great number of fuch, yet does not the Grand Seignor 

 Havering. n ç & Q ç an ^ ^ ut wnat nave f ome ft one f value about the neck, nay fometimes 



fuch as may be valued at ten thoufand Crowns. All the Mabumetane Princes are very 

 fumptuous , in all things relating to their Game, and particularly the King of Perfta. 

 Nothing can be imagin'd more Glorious, or Magnificent , then the long Train of the 

 Grandees of his Court, when they return from their Sports. They all march in an 

 excellent order, every one with the Hawke on his Fill, and every Hawke having about 

 the neck, either a Diamond, or fome other precious ftone, of great value, with the hood 

 all embroider'd with Pearles -, which mult needs make a moft delightful ftiow. 



The Turk/, and other inhabitants of the Levant , breed up, in order to their diver- 

 zirds Applying t }f- emcnt ^ f evera i f or ts of Birds, which the Europeans make no ufeof at all, and they 

 Dogsviri run- are of a larger fize, and ftronger, then ours. With thofe, inftead of Dogs, will they 

 ning 'down a run down a Hare, or a Stagge j and they have alfo the diverfion of hunting the Wild 

 Vnr, or Hare, j$ oa ^ an<a ot h er f aV age Beaits. But what makes that Sport the more delightful is this, 

 that in Perfia, the Countrey is all open and champion, and there are no Woods, into 

 which the Hawke, or other Bird, might get out of their fight. He difcovers the Beaft 

 at a great diftance, fattens of a fudden upon it, fo as that it cannot get loofe from him, 

 and, llicking clofe to the Head, picks out the Eyes of it, vexes, and torments it, and 

 retards the fwiftnefs of its courfe, by which means, the Huntfmen come up the fooner 

 to it, and difpatch it. But they do not give the fatal blow, till the Prince has order'd 

 them to do it, or till he has thot off an Arrow, or difcharg'd his Fire-lock : upon 

 which fignall, they who are about him are permitted to exercife their courage and dex- 

 terity. 



Next adjoyning to the Appartment of the Pages, belonging to the Falconry, there 

 is a long Gallery, which is open but ot one fide, and in the rloore of it, there is a little 

 afcent. It is fultain'd by ten Pillars of Marble, of feveral colours, and pav'd with a 

 fquare-piee'd work of the fame material i with a Wainfcotage, wherein there are fome 

 flowers painted, but very meanly. 



... From the end of the forefaid Gallery, turning on the right hand, you come to the 



A&scfambl- Chamber of the Sdidgar-Agi^ who carries the Sword before the Grand Seignor. Some 

 •mho carries tie part of that Chamber is cover'd with Carpets, the other has a Seat or Scaffold, rais'd 

 Grandseigmfi three foot high, but of a confiderable breadth, to which they afcend by fb many fteps 

 Sword. f white Marble, of four foot in length, the remainder of which Seat, being divided 



from the Chamber by a Ballifter'd work, partly gilt with Gold , and partly Green. 

 ■ All within that enclofure of Ballifters is covefd with rich filken Carpets, and all about, 

 as well to the Wall fide, as to that of the Ballifters , there are fumptuous Culhions of all 

 forts, of Gold and Silver-Brokadoes. The Walls of the Chamber are all gilt, and at 

 equal diftances, there are flower-pots painted, rarely well diverlify'd , and affording a 

 moft delightful profpedf. The place where the Sdidgar-Agi fits, is at the corner of 

 that part of the Chamber which is enclos'd with the Ballifters, on the right hand, and 

 over his Head hang the Swords and Sabres, which he carries before the Grand Seignor, 

 within the Seraglio \ and after him, when his Highnefs goes out of the Seraglio. 



toe excellent Affoon as a Prince is come to the Crown, whatever he ordinarily wears, is never re- 

 erder ebfirv'd turn'd into the Treafury, till after his death : And the Chafriadar-bacbi, who is the 

 n tbt seragho, Qverfeer of it, finds by his Regiftries, whether all the things that were taken out of 



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