A _Chaush-bashi_, or chief sergeant of the army. He is of so great credit with every one, that when he is sent by the Signor to some Pasha, _Sanjak_, or _Kazi_, with the order to have the head of such and such a one cut off, he is obeyed without their requiring a letter from him, or a command in writing; not otherwise than if the Signor himself were there, and gave command. He has a hundred aspers a day, and under him he keeps a hundred slaves,[750] with twenty-five to forty aspers each. The _Mihter-bashi_, or chief of those who pitch the tents and spread the rugs, who sweep the court-yards and attend to other similar duties; he has forty aspers, a _Kiaya_ with twenty-five aspers, sixty _Mihters_ with five to eight aspers each; and they are clothed every year by the Signor. An _Agha_, or general of the Janissaries. He has for pay a thousand aspers and over per day, and six thousand ducats of feudal grant per year. When this _Agha_ holds court, which is two or three times per week, he is obliged to give the Janissaries to eat, a meal of bread, rice, mutton, honey, and water. He has under him a _Kiaya_ or Secretary of the Janissaries, who is, as it were, a vicegerent; he has two hundred aspers per day of pay in cash, and thirty thousand of feudal grant per year.[751] And there is a clerk of these Janissaries, called the _Yaziji_ of the Janissaries,[752] with a hundred aspers a day. A _Seymen-bashi_, chief of the harriers.[753] He has a hundred aspers and has from the number of the Janissaries about two thousand under him. A _Zagarji-bashi_, head of the hounds.[754] He has fifty aspers a day, and has under him about seven hundred of the Janissaries.