Part I 
Travels into the Lev an t. 
71 
(Sanmc Bey is like a Lcid ot a Manner) but few of thefe quarter in Towns, Sanguc Bej , 
they are for the molt partdiiperfed in their Ttmars^ and are obliged to f.rve ^^.,'^^,5" 'thé 
the Grand Si gmor with fo many Horfe-men, accordiug to the value of their c^^i^^jj-g^ 
Timar whep" thev are requited to it. The G'rW5i^«2or is Heir to all thefs 
Men w'ho are under his Pay, if they die without Children ; but if they leave 
Paughters behinu them, lie takes only two thirds of the Inheritance, and the 
Succeffion of the Deceafed, ft and s inftead of a Son. 
CHAP. 
Of the eafie way the Grand Signior has in raifing 
and maintaining great Armies, 
F Rom what Ifaid before, it plainly appears, th^t thz Grand Sigmor may in 
a few days time raife an Array of two or three hundred thoufand Men ; 
for when he intends to make War, he has no more to do, but to fend his 
Orders to all that receive his Pay ; who fo foon as they receive Command, 
fail not to make ready to do what they are er. joined ; thefe amount already to 
a confiderable number of M^n j for a good part of the Grand Signior's Subjedis 
receive his Pay. .Belides that, he fends for the Bajhas, or Governours of orders for 
Places, to come to him ; and thefe tome in all hafte with a great train of raifing an 
Servants, who are fo many Soldiers, and fometimes bring along with them Army, 
part of the Forces of their Government , if they have had orders.. The M'^'^^"- 
Sangiacs come with their Timar Spahis^ and many of the Troopers have Ser- 
vants, who are fo far from being a hindrance, (as they commonly are, in the 
Armiey of Chrift'endom ) thit they do very good fervice. Now it is very eafie 
to make them march and fubfifc In the Fields, for they have but little Baggage, The fubfi- 
and fear not fatigue. They can live upon a fmall matter, and provided they ^^^^^ of For- 
have Rice, a little Bread, Water, CorFee and Tobacco, they make as good 
chear as if they were at home ; and if any of thefe things be wanting, they 
have patience, and are not inftantly undone, as Chriftians are, when they 
have no more Wine. Thus their Armies never periOi with hunger, Viduals 
being brought them in fufficient quantity from ail hands ; for feeing they 
pundcually pay ifor what they have, commit no diforder, nor plunder the 
Countrey, all things are brought to the Camp, as to a common Market : Nay, 
when the Turks are at War with the Perjians Merchants travel fecurely 
from one Countrey , and from one Army to another , and trade without 
any apprehenfion of being plundered. Sultan Ambrât \tà to Bagdad Army 
of fix or feven hundred thoufand Men ; others fay , nine hundred thoufand 
Horfe and Foot : It behoved him to march over Defarts, and neverthelefs he 
took fuch orders,- that his Army fubfifced very well. It cofts theCrand Signior 
no more to maintain his Army in time of War, than in time of Peace j for he 
keeps none but his own Soldiers, and the Bafias and others maintain thofe 
whom they have brought with them ; But it is not the Number alone that makes 
them gain fo many Battels, and take fo many Towns, it is alfo the Valour and 
Strength of the Soldiers, who being never weakned by fatigue, are always in 
a readinefs to fight againft the Enemy, how frelh foever they may be; and 
when they are engaged, fight like Lyons, chufing rather to be cut in pieces, than 
to retreat, unlefs the Enemy far exceed them in number : But that which chiefly 
renders them fo couragious, is the great confidence they put in Defniny ; for 
they firmly believe, that if they be to die to day, they'l die afwel in their 
Chamber, as in the Field ^ and that if their day be not come, a hundred thou- 
fand men cannot take their life away from them, becaufe it is faid in the Jlcoran, 
that a Man cannot die, till his time become •■, that no Man can retard it, and 
much lefs prolong or fiiorten his life, but according as it is written in the 
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