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BALTAGI

Volume 2 · 60 words · 1778 Edition

among the Turks; porters, and hewers of wood, in the court of the grand signior; who also mount on horseback, when the emperor rides out. Part of them also, who, for that purpose, must be stationed, keep watch at the gates of the first and second courts of the seraglio. These last are called capigli, and their commander capigli pescha.