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have pay proportionable to the employments they undertake ; but fo long as 
they live in the Serraglw^ they are fure of blows with a Cudgel, as often as 
they commit a fault. They are divided into Chambers, and many of them 
being thwackt together into one Room , they are not a little ftraitned ; 
when they are in Bed, Eunuchs watch over them, walking up and down the 
Room, leafi; they fhould flip out of one Bed into another, for the Itchoglms 
'are not gelt. The chief charge that they can rife to whilfl they are Pages 
in the SerragUo^ is to be of the number of the forty that come nearelt the 
perfoD of the Grand Sigmor,o{ whom the chief fourare the Selihhtar, who carries Forty Images 
the Princes Sword: Tht Tfchoadar, who carries hhTaffmourluk^or Cloak f'^'^' ^]fe^'"f„^"/ . 
rain •^ the IkiBar^ who carries always water in a velfel, to pour upon his Xor"/"^' ■ 
Hands, if he have a mind to walh ^ and the Knptar, who carries a Pot with 
Sorbett to give him to drink when he is dry •• Thefe fonr always wait upon Four Chief 
the Grand Signior when he goes abroad out of the Serraglio^ and from thefe Pages. 
Offices they are advanced to the highefl; places of the Empire. Befides this ^heSdlh!Mr. 
great SerragHo, there is another in Coi-ifiannnople^ which is called the old Ser- ^y-^J^' 
raglio^ where heretofore the Prince lodged, but which at prefent ferves only cupur'. 
for lodgings for the Wives of x.\\q Grand Signior thzt laft died, whither they The old ser- 
are all fent,unlefs it be fome whom the Grand Signior now reigning, taking a lik- 
ing to, retains in the Serraglio; they are guarded very ftridtly by Eunuchs in this o/^^^i^^ 'i^f^ 
old Serraglioj and that till death, unlefs the Grand Stgnior think fit that they pj-ince. 
marry fome great men of his Court. This Palace is well built, it isenclofed 
within very high Walls, which have no opening but the Gate, fo that it is 
not unlike to a Nunnery amongft us: There is moreover a Serraglto of the 
Grand Stgniors at Fera^ near to the Houfe of the French Ambaifador, where fe- ^^mthev Ser- 
veral Itchoglans ztq kept under the guard of an ylga-, who having fpent fome y^^/^^ atPer^. 
time there, the duller are fent out with pay, and the reft come to the Ser- 
raglio to be entertained in the Grand Signior s fervicc- Befides thefe Serraglio's 
the Grand Signior has others in the Country,both in Enrôle and yifia^ which have 
all fine Gardens, and m.any Boflangts to look after them, who are under the 
command of the BoHangi Bajlja or chief of the Gardners. This is one of Boftangt Ba- 
the beft places of the Empire j for the Bofiangi Bajha has lodgings in the I^^'^- 
Serraglio, and neverthelefs he wears a Beard, none but the Grand Stgnior and 
he doing fo ; for all the reft are fhaved as a mark of their fervitude : Befides 
he having the Princes Ear, whom he often attends when he goes abroad to 
take the Air, either in the Gardens, or upon the Water, where he fits at 
the Helm of the Boat or Galiot that carries the Grand Signior ^ there is no 
doubt, but he is in great Power, and much confidered, not only at the Port, 
but over the whole Empire: When the Grand Signior puts any perfon of qua- 
lity to death at Confi antinomie ^ he commonly fends the Bofiangi Bapa to bring 
him his Head. 
C H A R XIX. 
Of the other SerraglioSy Hans^ Private Houfes^ and 
Be^ejlins of Conftantinople. 
THere are alfo many Serraglios of private perfons in Conftantinofle, but 
they have no beauty on the outfide, on the contrary they are very ug- 
ly, and it would fee m that they afFedt to make them have but little ihow with- 
out, for fear of giving jealoufie to the Grand Signior : Thefe Palaces are 
great, and encompafled all round with high Walls like our Monafteries -, they ^I'J]^^^^"^^^^ 
have very lovely Appartments within, adorned with Gold and Azure, and p^i^ces. 
the Floor they walk upon covered with fine Carpets, which is the reafon that 
E men 
