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ment, as a punlfliment for mifdemeanors; they are chained and 
fettered, and kept to hard labour, as dreffing and tanning lea- 
ther, making fpear heads, &c. 
14. A large court of irregular form filled with a multitude of 
fmall apartments for the women j they pafs through the two 
gates marked w to fetch water, but have no other outlet. Each 
of the principal women has a large apartment, furrounded by a 
number of fmaller ones for her flaves j there are alfo apartments 
for cooking. 
15. Granary, which is builded on a frame of timber, to pre- 
vent the acceffion of the Tennis or white ant. 
16. Gate by which the women enter the Sultan's apartment 
where that fex performs all offices. 
1 7. Stable or court where the beft horfes are kept tied, and 
fheltered from the fun. "'5 
The Eunuchs live in the interior, to be always near the Sul- 
tan ; male flaves, wherever they can find a place. 
18. Are the flaves' apartments who guard the entrance. 
19. A place where the faquirs read. 
The officers immediately attached to the court live in fmall 
inclofures on the outfide of the fence, as that marked 20. 
The houfes of the Meleks refemble this in miniature ; thofe 
of inferior perfons only of fmaller fize without divifions, and 
having fewer apartments. 
The exterior is an hedge of dry thorns, about ten feet thick, 
and as many high. 
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