A Relation of the Chap.XV # 



good aétions, as chaftifements are, of bad ones \ and it is alfb incumbent upon him, to 

 make fpeedy provifion of all the things they ftand in need of. Over the Door of that 

 Chamber, thefe words, La Ilia Hé Ilia, &c. whereof I have often made mention,are 

 engrav'd in large golden Letters i and at the four corners, are the Names of Maho- 

 met's four Companions, Ehon-bekçr, Omar, Ofman, and Ali, engrav'd in like manner 

 in black Marble When the Grand Seignor has made a Baffa, and that he is to take 

 his leave of iiis Highnefs, to go to his Government, he comes out at that Door, where 

 all thofè names are engrav'd, and as foon as he is come out, he turns his face again to 

 the Door, and kifTes the Threfhold of it, with great humility. 



As foon as you are come into the Chamber, you find on the right hand feveral 

 words of the Law, written, and enchae'd, in guilt fquares, and one of thefe Wri- 

 tings is, of Sultan Acbmet's, the Father of Amuratb. On the left hand, you find, 

 AnebleMonu- faften'd to the Wall, a Coat of Mail, a Head-piece, and a great Buckler i it is one of 

 ment of Amu- ^ e Monuments of AmuratlSs Valour. During the Siege of Bagdet, or Babylon, a 

 nth $ Valour. j> er j- JM CO ming out f the City, and challenging any one of the Befiegers to meet 

 him, that Prince, one of the mod courageous and ftrongeft men of his age, would 

 needs receive him himfelf, without any other Arms, than a Sabre in his hand, though 

 the Perfian was arm'd from head to foot. Amuratb who was not only a prodigious 

 Perfon as to ftrength, and valour, but alfo well skill'd in the ufe of a Weapon, af- 

 forded him not the time to confider whom he had to deal withal, but immediately 

 gave him fuch a furious blow with the Sabre, over the right fhoulder, that he cut his 

 coat of Mail quite to the Middle of his Body, and left him dead upon the place. 



Oppofite to the Haz-Oda } or the Chamber of the forty Pages, there is a Gallery of 

 a confiderable length, and particularly remarkable for its Structure. It is open on 

 both fides, and has, of each, a row of white Marble-Pillars j but it is built after the 

 Serpentine fafhion, and they who walk in it are, every fix paces, out of fight one of 

 the other. There are, under this Gallery four great Preffo, to put up the accoutre- 

 ments of the four Officers, who are always about the Grand Seignor's Perfbn, to wit, 

 the Seligdar-Aga, the Chokidar- Aga, the Kequabdar-Aga, and the Hazoda-bachi, of 

 whom I have fpoken at the beginning of this Relation, when I gave a Lift of the 

 Grandees of the Port. 



Ihi [situation This Gallery, of {b fantaftick and fo extraordinary a Structure, is not far from that 

 oftht Mofquts other, which is a continu'd afcent,and whereof I made mention in the precedent Chap- 

 in Turkey. t£r> Oppofite to this laft, there is a Mofquey, of the middle fort, as to the largenefs, 

 the length of it fbmewhat exceeding its breadth, and it ftands North and South, a 

 fituation the TwJy obferve in all their Mofquey s , which are always turn'd towards Me- 

 cba, which place is Meridional to all the Provinces of the Empire. There is in the 

 Wall, oppofite to the South, a kind of Neech, which they call Mibrab, into which 

 the Iman, who is their Prieft, gets up, to fay Prayers at the accuftomed hour», and 

 the Grand Seignor is prefent thereat, with the forty Pages of the Haz-Oda, in a little 

 Pvoom, the Window whereof is oppofite to the Neech. On both fides of the faid 

 Neech, there is a Gallery fuftain'd by five Pillars, fome whereof are of green Mar- 

 ble, and the reft of Porphyry. And in the Mofquey, and in the Chamber, or Room, 

 into which the Grand Seignor comes to do his Devotions, and in the two Galleries, 

 there's no going but upon rich Carpets. You are not "to look for ought of paint- 

 ing there ; nor have the Walls any other Ornament, than that of the whitenefs 

 of the Marble, whereof they are built. But there are a great many Writings,in large 

 ^ra&id^Ghara&ers, enchae'd in gilt Borders, hanging up in feveral places, and thofe 

 W ritings contain only things taken ,out of the Law of Mahomet. 



The Window of the Chamber, into which the Grand Seignor comes to do his De- 

 votions, is fix foot in length, and three foot high, and has a Lattice, with a Curtain 

 behind it, as it is in feveral Chappels, which our Chriftian Princes have in their Pala- 

 ces. There is alfo oppofite to the fame Neech, before-mentioned, fuch another Win- 

 dow, and fuch another Chamber, for the Sultaneftes, and when the Muezim, whole 

 ftation is of one fide of the Imar^ and who is as it were his Clerk, hears the draw- 

 ing 



