. Part II. Travels into the Levant. 
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the prefenc King, did what: he coulcl to bring them low, raifing the Gou- 
lams, and preferring them to all dignities. There are about five and twenty 
thoufand of them in the King's fer vice, and their pay is from ten or twelve 
to fifteen Tomans a year: but for the firft two or three years they receive 
nothing. Their General is a Corfcbi, and the King cannot put one over 
them who is not of their Body ; he is called the Corfdn Bajja, and they 
have a great many great Lords among them. When the King would put 
any great man to death, he commits the Execution commonly to a Corjchi. 
Thelemen have vaft numbers of Cattle. 
The Goulams are Slaves, or the Sons of Slaves of all Nations, and chiefly The Goulams. 
cf Renegado Georgians ; all their male ilTue to the hundredth Generation are of 
this body. And there are about fourteen thoufand of them in fervice, 
who have from five or fix to eight Tomans of pay ; they have alfo many 
great Lords of their Body, and their chief is called Kouller Agafi. 
ThtTufenkgi are men railed in the Villages, and c\{\Q?Ly Re7tegado Ar- TheTufenligù 
wmtans ; they are about eight thoufand, and have the fame pay as the 
Goulams have, but are looked upon onely as Peafants without reputation. 
They were the laft that have been inftituted, for the ufe of the Musket ; 
rhey march on horfe-back, but when they are to fight, alight. The Cor\- 
chi and Goulams carry bows and arrows, and fight on horfe-back, yet Ibme 
of them carry the Harquebulfe. The Sons of Soldiers receive pay fb foon The Soldier's 
as they are feven years old, and it is augmented proportionably as they Sons have pay, 
grow in Age. 
Befides thefè, the King of Verfia has Guards who carry the Musket, a new MUi- 
but it is not long fince they were inftituted by an Eatmad Doulet, who of guards; 
made ufe of that invention to undo the Di'van Beghi then in being. The 
Story is, that a certain Perfon having one day found the Sifter of that Eat- 
mad Doulet, in a debauched place, (before he was as yet railed to that dig- 
nity,) carried away her drawers ; and then talked of it in feveral places, 
which extremely netled the Brother, who at that time dilTembled his dif- 
pleafure. Not long after, being made Eatmad Doulet, he refolved to undo 
that man who had defamed his Sifter ; and to compafs his defigns cun- 
ningly, he brought things fo about, that the King beftowed the Office of 
Deroga upon this man : At this he was much furprifed, and thought that 
the Eatmad Doulei had forgot the trick he had put upon his Sifter ; fb 
that he fell to rob and cheat briskly, and the rather that he was fuppor- 
ted by the Divan Begin. When the Eatmad Doulet found that he had rob- 
bed enough, he accufed him before the King of abufes committed in his 
Office, and much oppreflion, who not being able to juftifie himfelf, was 
condemned to have Peggs driven through his feet, to be hanged up with 
his head downwards, and in that pofture to receive a great many Bafto- 
nadoes ; all which was publickly put into Execution in the Meidan, in 
fpight of the Divan Begin, who did all he could to hinder it. That offen- 
ded the Eatmad Doulet, fo that he refolved to undoe him aUb ; and for that 
end made a Renegado Armenian Deroga ; who put into purfès by it lelf, all 
the money he got in his Office by fines, and fealed thefe purfes by order 
from the Eatmad Doulet, who by thefe purfes made the King fenfible, that 
if a Deroga got fo much, a Divan Begin muft needs get much more. On the 
other hand the Divan Beghi ( who was not afleep,^ brought complaints from 
all hands againft the Deroga, that that might refleft upon the Eatmad Dou- 
let ; but thefe People palling no higher than the Aali Capi, the complaints 
reached not the Princes Ear. In fine, one day when the King was to go 
abroad, the Eatmad Doulet armed feveral men with Muskets, and placed 
them in guard at the Gate of the King's Palace. 
The King as he was going out oblerving this new guard, failed not to 
ask what the meaning of it was ; the Eaîmad Doulet being there on 
purpofe, anfwered that it was he who had placed thole guards there, for 
his Majefties lecurity, becaule the Divan Begin ftirred up the People to le- 
dition againft him ; prelently the King who was a little credulous, ( which 
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