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28 VOYAGES AND PASSAGES FROM ANNO 1608
walles orderlie, beautified with square towers of hard
stone whose equall distance makes a reasonable shew:
the goodliest Harbour in the world, twentie fathom deepe,
close to the shores of both citties, conteyning ten english
miles in circumference ; much Wast ground within.
The Seraglio is the pallace of the Gran Signior in-
closing >as much ground as St. James parcke: Large
Courts : Spacious gardeins, enbattled walles, stored with
Artillerie, divers manner of Structures, which indeed
seeme severall pallaces, among whome there is one called
a Caska1 (or Cheeaskee2) without the wall of the seraglio,
close to the water side, where hee accustometh to take
his gallie (or Kaeeck8), of the delicatest and rarest presence
that ever I beheld, for it is a quadrat of seven arches on
a side cloisterwise, like the Rialto walk in Venice, and in
the middest riseth a Core4 of three or four Roomes with
Chimneys whose mantle trees5 are of silver, curiously
glazed, protected with an Iron grate all guilt over most
gloriously. The whole frame soe set with Opalls, Rubies,
Emeralds, burnisht with gold, painted with flowers and
graced with Inlaid worcke of porphiry, marble, Jett, Jasper
and delicate stones, that I am perswaded there is not such
a bird cage in the world. Under the walles are stables
for sea horses, called hippopotamie, which is a monstrous
beast taken in Nilus: Elephants, tigres and Dolphins:
Sometimes they have Crocodiles and Rinoceros. Within
arc Roebucks, white partridges, and turtles, the bird of
1 Kiosk. Turk, and Pers. kushk, F. kiosgite, a pavilion, villa,
portico. Compare Sanderson's Voyage in Purchas His Pilgrimes,
Part n. Book ix. p. 1626, "Sultan Morat [Murad, AmurathJ...hath
built...two faire Lodgings, or as we may say Banqueting Houses,
which they call Chouskes."
2 Mundy's interpolation.
3 Mundy's interpolation. Caique, Turk, kciik, the small skiff used
at Constantinople.
4 i.e. a central building.
6 Beams across the opening of the fireplaces.
walles orderlie, beautified with square towers of hard
stone whose equall distance makes a reasonable shew:
the goodliest Harbour in the world, twentie fathom deepe,
close to the shores of both citties, conteyning ten english
miles in circumference ; much Wast ground within.
The Seraglio is the pallace of the Gran Signior in-
closing >as much ground as St. James parcke: Large
Courts : Spacious gardeins, enbattled walles, stored with
Artillerie, divers manner of Structures, which indeed
seeme severall pallaces, among whome there is one called
a Caska1 (or Cheeaskee2) without the wall of the seraglio,
close to the water side, where hee accustometh to take
his gallie (or Kaeeck8), of the delicatest and rarest presence
that ever I beheld, for it is a quadrat of seven arches on
a side cloisterwise, like the Rialto walk in Venice, and in
the middest riseth a Core4 of three or four Roomes with
Chimneys whose mantle trees5 are of silver, curiously
glazed, protected with an Iron grate all guilt over most
gloriously. The whole frame soe set with Opalls, Rubies,
Emeralds, burnisht with gold, painted with flowers and
graced with Inlaid worcke of porphiry, marble, Jett, Jasper
and delicate stones, that I am perswaded there is not such
a bird cage in the world. Under the walles are stables
for sea horses, called hippopotamie, which is a monstrous
beast taken in Nilus: Elephants, tigres and Dolphins:
Sometimes they have Crocodiles and Rinoceros. Within
arc Roebucks, white partridges, and turtles, the bird of
1 Kiosk. Turk, and Pers. kushk, F. kiosgite, a pavilion, villa,
portico. Compare Sanderson's Voyage in Purchas His Pilgrimes,
Part n. Book ix. p. 1626, "Sultan Morat [Murad, AmurathJ...hath
built...two faire Lodgings, or as we may say Banqueting Houses,
which they call Chouskes."
2 Mundy's interpolation.
3 Mundy's interpolation. Caique, Turk, kciik, the small skiff used
at Constantinople.
4 i.e. a central building.
6 Beams across the opening of the fireplaces.