The _Spahi-oghlans_, or youths on horseback, who may be called _Spahi-oghlan_, are more than three thousand; and they have twenty to forty aspers each; and every twenty have a _Boluk-bashi_. These serve on horseback, each with five or six slaves and a like number of horses. And they always journey, and also encamp, at the right hand of the Signor. They are great people. From them the Signor is wont to choose his chief men. They are first put as boys into the palace, and when they grow up they succeed well if they attain this grade: it is like a ladder to mount to higher positions. An _Agha_ of the _Silihdars_, who has thirty thousand aspers a day,[758] and under him a lieutenant, a secretary, a _Kiaya_,[759] with thirty aspers and more each. There are three thousand _Silihdars_. They moreover ride and encamp at the left hand of the Signor. They have twenty to twenty-five aspers per day each, and they have four or five slaves and a like number of horses, with feudal income for their living. They are trained by the same education with which the _Spahis_ are brought up: nor is there any difference between them, except that the _Spahis_ go on the right, and these on the left, of the Signor. Two _Ulufaji-bashis_, or chief officers of soldiers, with two thousand _Ulufajis_, who go on the right hand and the left of the Signor. The chief officers have a hundred and twenty aspers, and the others eight to sixteen aspers; then under them[760] they have a _Kiaya_, a secretary, and a lieutenant,[761] with slaves and with horses, some more and some fewer. Two _Aghas_, chief officers of the _Ghureba-oghlans_, or poor youths[762] with eighty aspers each. _Kiayas_, thirty aspers. Secretaries, twenty-five. And they have under them about two thousand _Ghureba-oghlans_ with seven to fourteen aspers per day: these have slaves and horses. Two _Emir-al-Akhors_,[763] or masters of the stable, a greater and a lesser. The greater has five hundred aspers, the lesser two hundred, with lieutenant and _Kiaya_[764] and others, who have thirty to forty aspers each. Sixteen thousand altogether of _Serraj_, who have charge of bridles[765] and saddles; _Ceyssi_, or stable servants; _Carmandari_, who take care of the mules; _Deveji_, who take care of the camels, and _Cavriliji_, who herd the cattle and horses in various places. These have two to twenty aspers per day each. Thirty to forty _Peiks_, or runners on foot, men who when boys have had their spleens removed:[766] and they run post on foot with great speed. These when the Signor goes forth remain continually near, so that he may employ them according to his needs. Select horses about four thousand for the person of the Signor; on these the pages of the palace and the eunuchs ride for exercise in their turns.