The _Kiaya_,[738] who is, as it were, a lieutenant for the gardeners, has 20 aspers per day; and each ten [gardeners] have a chief called _Boluk-bashi_. From this garden, which is very large and well-tended, full of excellent fruit-trees of every sort, they obtain so much every year that from the product of it alone they make the living expenses of the Signor, and also get something more. Near the garden are always stationed two small galleys; these are rowed by the gardeners when the Signor goes on a pleasure-trip, and the _Boluk-bashi_ holds the helm.[739] The _Ashji-bashi_, chief cook, with fifty cooks under him. He has 40 aspers per day, the cooks under him four, six, or eight aspers each. The _Helvaji-bashi_, or chief confectioner, with 40 aspers, and he has thirty companions with five to six aspers per day each. The _Chasnijir-bashi_,[740] chief of the cupboards, with eighty aspers: morning and evening he brings with his own hand the dish of the Signor, and he has under him a hundred _Chasnijirs_ with from three to seventy aspers each.[741] The _Mutbakh-emini_,[742] or steward, with 40 aspers. He has a secretary with 20 aspers a day. A hundred _Ajem-oghlans_, who transport on carts the wood of the palace. They have three to five aspers, and are provided with clothing. Ten _Sakkas_, who carry water on horseback in leathern sacks, with three to five aspers each. The expenses for the table of the Signor, and of the youths with their eunuchs and others to about a thousand, amount to five thousand aspers a day. Three _Kapuji-bashis_, or captains of the gate, who have a hundred aspers a day and are clothed every year: and they have under them two hundred and fifty _Kapujis_, who have five to six aspers each; and each _Kapuji-bashi_ with a third of the _Kapujis_ is obliged to keep guard at the gate of the Signor, changing from day to day. And when any ambassador or other person goes to kiss the hand of the Grand Signor, all these are given presents of clothes or of money according to the degree of him who is introduced. A _Kapuji-kiaya_, who is, as it were, a lieutenant of the _Kapujis_, has forty aspers a day.