A Relation of the Chap.XVl. 



difpos'd himfelf to fatisfie him, in a Ihort time, how well he could make his advantage 

 of the Ledture he had read him. He acknowlcdg'djthat he had often thought of what 

 he had reprefented to him, and that he had a way of livelihood in his head, which he 

 hop'd would take very well. Some daies pafs'd away, ere the Grand Scignor made 

 the leaft mention of Hunting - , but at laft, he grows impatient, he leaves the Seraglio, 

 and had the good fortune to kill a Hare with a Gun, the hrft he had ever deftroy'd 

 that way. He immediately fends it to the Motif ti, with order to tell him, That he has 

 follow'd his advice, and that having learnt the Profeffion of a Huntfman, he has com- 

 manded that hrft piece of his Game (hould be brought to him, which he was willing 

 to fell, that he might fubfift by theMony it mould produce : That he fail not to give 

 Twenty Purfes to him who brings it \ and that as to his own Perfon, he knew well 

 enough what he ought to fend him. 



The Moufti conceal'd his furprizal as well as he could , and receivM the Hare 

 with great teft imonies of his refentments and joy, of the honour, which his Highnefs 

 had done him i and having beftow'd, according to his own order, Twenty Purfes up- 

 ' on the Bearer of the Hare, fends Sixty more to the Grand Seignor himfelf \ learning, 

 at his own colt, and that to the value of Fourfcore thoufand Crowns, that men mould 

 not be over-forward to give their Sovereigns thofe advertifements, which they délire 

 not of them. 



To finilh the Pourtraiture of Sultan-Mahomet , he is further chargeable with a de- 

 fect of conftancy, in his humour, and a roughnefs of deportment towards his people, 

 who are thereupon apt to have the lefs arfedrion for him. And whereas he is indefa- 

 tigable in his Hunting-Exercifes, and fpends whole daies therein, even in the fevereft 

 part of the Winter-Seafon, it happeifd, one day, as he was returning home, from the 

 Sport of running down a Stag,that his Grand Falconer took the boldnefs to reprefent to 

 him the inconvenience ol expofing his Slaves fo much in the Ice and Snow, by which 

 means there had dy'd about Thirty of them the Night before, and the reft were in a 

 fair way to follow them. The Prince, not mov'd at all with that Remonftrance,made 

 this Reply to the grand Falconer, That, if the Weather prov'd very hard, they mould 

 have a care of his Dogs, and allow them cloathing, and other accommodations, left 

 the rigour of the Seaibn might take off any one of them i making not the leaft men- 

 tion of, or provifion for the men, whom he facrihe'd to his Divertifement. That 

 rough repartee having been fpread among the people, has begot fuch animofity in them 

 againft this Prince, that there's no queftion made of his being feniible thereof, and that 

 it is, in fome meafiure, the caufe of his keeping fo much at a diftance, from the Metro- 

 polis of his Empire, where he does not think himfelf fecure. 



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