in the Turkish affairs, persons employed in the garden of the seraglio, out of whose number are collected those who are to row in the Grand Signior's brigantines, when he has a mind to divert himself with fishing, or take the air upon the canal. They who row on the left hand are only capable of mean employments in the gardens; but they who row on the right hand may be promoted to the charge of bostangi-bachi, who has the general intendency of all the Grand Signior's gardens, and commands above ten thousand bostangis.