I aS Travels into /i'e L e v a n t. Part I 
What the ters before the fitting of the Divan, fecure the Bajha, arjd one of thcra who 
Eeys of Ciirre jj declared Caimacan by the Grand Signiors Letters, takes upon him all the 
Sfha is^Man- ^^"^^ Government, until the coming of the new Bafha. In the mean 
foul. " while the Beys make the Bafha Manfoul, give an account of all the Money he 
has received, and take from him what he has remaining. This laftsfeveral 
davs, during which, his Servants pack up, and take all that they can catch 
in the Bafha's appartment, which belongs not to their Mafter, as Carpets 
and the like. After that the Balha hath made up his Accounts with the 
Beys, he fets out from Caire that he may go to Conftantinofle, and render 
an account of his Adminiflration, and then his Enemies declare themfelves, 
and feek all occalions to do him Prejudice, objeding againll him all the In- 
juftice that he hath committed during his Government. Sometimes he is put 
to Death upon the Road by orders from the Grand Signior, and fometimes 
alfo he is made Grand Vifier upon his arrival at Confiamnmple ; fo that many 
of thefe Baflias return not to Cof?Bammople^b\it Rebel,and with fuch men as they 
can get together, roam up and down ÂnatoUa, laying Contributions on 
Towns and Villages ; and this they do chiefly when they are afraid to appear 
before the (Jr^^W Signior. 
TheCaval- This Bajha having cleared his Accounts, went out of Caire the fix and 
cade at the twentieth of JWyinthe morning, and the Cavalcade was in this order. Firit 
fh""lafha ^ ^^"^ Servants of the Beys two and two on Horfe back ; and as the 
Manfoul. Family of one Bey was paft, there was a Ihort interval, then came another, 
and fo in order till all were gone \ in the Rear of the Family of every Bey, 
which confilled of about one hundred Horfe-men more or lefs according to 
the Eilate of the Bey, came a led Horfe well accoutred, having a Buckler 
faftened upon the Saddle j and fome of the Beys have two or three fuch led 
Horfes. After the retinue of the»Beys, came apart of the Bafha's Servants, all 
well Armed like men who are upon a March ^ of them about thirty of the 
^ firft carried the Banners of the Bafha, and were followed by many of the 
Officers of the Caftle on Horfe- back ; after whom came the Chiaoux, next the 
Sous-Ba^ia^ then all the Beys two and two, every one with a Page walking 
before them on Foot ; next in order marched the Az^aps two and two, well 
Armed, mofl part covered with the Skins of Tygres, then the Janiz^aries^ 
who are called the Janiz^aries of Mehkiemcj or of the Juftice, followed by 
the Janiz^aries and all the Officers of the Divan : after them, came the Teiks 
or Lackeys of the Bafha on Foot, wiih their Caps of Silver gilt, then his 
Pages on Foot alfo, and at length the Bafha himfelf, mounted on a llately 
Horfe, with a rich Houze embroadered with Gold j he wore on his Head a 
Chiaoux Cap, but without a Herons top. After him came all the rellofliis 
Officers and Servants, with feveral Trumpets, Drums, Timbrels, and fuch 
kind of Inftruments. They went all out of the City to a place where the 
Baflia and his People Encamped in TentSf and flayed there fome days, till 
he fet out for ConBantinople^ takeing two or three hundred men in company 
The encamp- with him. While he lay Encamped near the City, Monfieur Z>e Bermond the 
ing of the French Conful went to vifit him in his Tent, becaufehewas his Friend, and 
Bafha Man- vve accompanied him. It was a very lovely Tent, and reckoned to be worth 
ten thoufand Crowns, it was very fpacious and encompaifed round with walls 
of waxed Cloath : in the middle was his Pavillion of green waxed Cloth, lined 
within with flowered Tapiftery all of one fet ; within the Precinds behind, 
and on the fides of his Pavillion, there were Chambers and Qffices for his 
Women : round the pale of his Tent within a Piftol Ihot were above two 
hundred Tents, pitched in fuch a manner, that the doors of all of them look- 
ed towards the Baflia's Tent, and it is ever fo, that they may have their 
eye always upon their Matters Lodging, and be in a readinefs to affift him, 
if he be attacked. Thefe Tents together yielded a pleafant profped in sthe 
Field, and efpecially the Baflia's, which on the top of the Pavillion had fe- 
veral great gilt Balls, which made a glorious ftiew when the Sun fhin'd 
upon them. 
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