The Janissaries number about twelve thousand: they have each from three to eight aspers of pay per day. Each ten has its _Oda-bashi_, and each hundred has its _Boluk-bashi_. And these heads of ten or of a hundred go on horseback. And the _Oda-bashis_ have forty, and the _Boluk-bashis_ sixty aspers a day. The remainder of the Janissaries go on foot. They are clothed once a year by the Signor with coarse blue cloth. They have their residence in two barracks in Constantinople given by the Signor. Those who have no wives reside in these. Those who are married reside at various places in the city. For their living expenses each contributes so much a day, and they have a steward and a cook, who provide their necessary living: and those who have less pay than the others are obliged to serve those who have more pay than they. Every hundred of them when they take the field transport a tent. They go on foot, and part of them are musketeers, and part halbardiers, and part use the scimetar alone. Every three lead a horse which carries their clothing. And when they come to old age, or when for some other reason the service of one of them does not please the Signor, they are stricken from the book of the Janissaries, and are sent as _Hissarlis_[755] or castle guards; and those of their officers who are deposed for such a reason, are sent as castellans with a feudal grant equivalent to the pay which they had previously, in such a way that none of them suffers hardship. Such of them as succeed in war are made _Voivodes_,[756] and raised to high positions. They come as boys to this soldiery and are taught by the experienced ones. They choose healthy ones, well-built, but nimble and dextrous, lively above all, and more often cruel than compassionate. In them rests the force and all the firmness of the army of the Turk; they, because they are always exercising and living together, all become as it were a single body, and of a truth they are terrible.[757] From the Janissaries are chosen a hundred and fifty _Solaks_, who are footmen of the Signor, with fifteen to twenty aspers a day each: they march surrounding the person of the Signor every time he goes forth. Two _Solak-bashis_, chief officers of the _Solaks_, who go on horseback, with thirty aspers per day. And these and the _Solaks_ are in obedience to the _Agha_ of the Janissaries. An _Agha_ of the _Spahi-oghlans_, an office of great honor. He has from feudal grant and pay ten ducats a day, and he has a large number of slaves, with a _Kiaya_ under him, or lieutenant: this man has from feudal grant and pay a hundred aspers a day. And also a _Yaziji_, or secretary, with thirty aspers, and with large perquisites.