[218] Ricaut, 51. The same custom was observed in the education of the princes and of all children of great officials (Spandugino, 179). Tanco, 197-198, says he has heard that Suleiman himself labored daily at a trade, so that even the Prince should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow; see also Jorga, ii. 343. [219] Menavino, 126, 127. [220] Postel, iii. 10. [221] Ricaut, 59. [222] Navagero, 43. [223] Ricaut, 48, says that in the three colleges of education the eunuchs exercised very severe discipline beyond that of monks. [224] Menavino, 127. [225] Ramberti, below, pp. 244, 245; Junis Bey, below, p. 263; Ricaut, 49. [226] Ricaut, 49: “Their first Lessons are silence, reverence, humble and modest behaviour, holding their heads downwards, and their hands across before them.” [227] _Ibid._ 48. [228] D’Ohsson, vii. 47. [229] Ricaut, 51; D’Ohsson, vii. 34 ff. These chambers were the _Kiler-odassi_, or Pantry; the _Khazineh-odassi_, or Treasure Chamber; the _Khas-odassi_, or Inner Chamber. See below, pp. 126-128. [230] Ricaut, 52. [231] Postel, iii. 11. [232] Spandugino, 62. [233] Hammer, _Geschichte_, iii. 32. [234] _Ibid_. 490. [235] Ramberti (below, p. 244) says that they became _Spahi-oghlans_, _Silihdars_, and officials of higher degree according to their worth and to the favor which they had gained with the sultan; Junis Bey, below, p. 263. [236] Menavino, 138. [237] Ricaut, 71; Postel, i. 33; Nicolay, 64; D’Ohsson, vii. 64. [238] Ramberti, below, p. 254 (“he marries them to Spahi-oghlans, or to others of the slaves of the Porte according to the degree and condition of both parties”); Junis Bey, below, p. 269; Geuffroy, 244; Chesneau, 40; Nicolay, 64. [239] Trevisano, 130, speaks of 16,400; but this number does not seem sufficient to account for all. [240] Chalcocondyles, 97; Spandugino, 103; Ramberti, 255; Junis Bey, 270; (they are sent “to dig earth in order to learn Turkish”); Zeno, 127; Geuffroy, 243; Navagero, 50. Chesneau, 44, states that those _Ajem-oghlans_ who were levied in Anatolia were sent to gentlemen in Rumelia. [241] Ramberti, below, p. 255; Junis Bey, below, p. 270; Nicolay, 86. [242] Giovio, _Commentarius_, 78; Junis Bey, as above. [243] Ramberti and Junis Bey, as above, say after three or four years; Geuffroy, 243, after four years. Navagero, 50, says that every two or three years, as the service demands, an officer takes those who are ready; some have served two or three, some four or five years. Trevisano, 130, says that they are left six or seven years. [244] Ricaut, 77. [245] Chalcocondyles, 97; Spandugino, 104; Navagero, 52. [246] Navagero, 52; Postel, iii. 22, 25. [247] Spandugino, 76. [248] Ramberti, 254, says 5000; Junis Bey, 269, says 4000 or 5000; Geuffroy, 242, says 5000 or 6000; Trevisano, 129, says 6800; Garzoni, 415, says 6000; Postel, iii. 25, says 5000 to 7000; D. Barbarigo, 33, says 7600. [249] Junis Bey, 269; Navagero, 51; Trevisano, 129; Postel, iii. 25.