[472] D’Ohsson, vii. 21. In his time these were under the “Chief of the Black Eunuchs.” It does not appear who controlled them under Suleiman. [473] Postel, iii. 12; Hammer, _Geschichte_, iii. 44. [474] Hammer, _Staatsverwaltung_, 37. [475] Spandugino, 127-128, describes the hunting organization under Bayezid II. Ramberti and Junis Bey (below, pp. 249, 266) state that 2700 or 900 Janissaries served under the _Segban-bashi_ and _Zagarji-bashi_ in the care of the dogs. [476] D’Ohsson, iv. 98 ff. [477] _Siasset Namèh_, 161. [478] _Tractatus_, ch. ix. [479] Hammer, _Staatsverfassung_, 88 ff. [480] _Ibid._, 434 ff. [481] The statements of this paragraph are based upon the _Kanuni Teshrifat_ as given in Hammer, _Staatsverfassung_, 434 ff. See Della Valle, i. 45: “Tutti gli uffici, e tutti gli ordini, tanto della militia, quanto della Corte, e d’ogni altra sorte di persone, hanno qui il loro habito proprio, and in particolare al portamento della testa, si cognosce ciascuno che cosa è.” [482] Postel, iii. 13; Hammer, _Geschichte_, iii. 18. [483] Ricaut, 156. [484] The festival of the Birth of the Prophet was not instituted until the reign of Murad III (Hammer, _Staatsverfassung_, 469). The sultan’s annual visit to the relics of the Prophet also became a great ceremony. [485] Hammer, _Geschichte_, iii. 96-101. Only less splendid was the marriage of Ibrahim to Suleiman’s sister in 1524 (_ibid._ 38). [486] Compare Gritti, 27: the Janissaries at the reception of ambassadors “stand in such quiet and order as for war that it is a marvellous thing and not to be believed by those who have not seen it with their own eyes.” [487] Busbecq, _Life and Letters_, i. 152 ff. [488] A name for Cairo, used much from the time of the crusades onward. [489] Nicolay, 88-89, explains that the wearing of ostrich plumes, attached in a tube of jeweled gold to the front of the turban, and curving over the head and down the back, was a highly-valued privilege accorded only to such Janissaries as had distinguished themselves in action. [490] The _Solaks_. [491] The _Sharabdar_, the _Chokadar_, and the _Silihdar_. [492] Busbecq, _Life and Letters_, i. 283 ff. [493] _Ibid._, 302 ff. These quotations may profitably be compared with those from the _Tractatus_ in regard to the simplicity of Murad II (above, p. 134). Not a few descriptions of court and camp ceremonies in the century following the accession of Suleiman have been handed down. For example: Suleiman’s entry into Belgrade in 1532 (Marini Sanuto, lvi. 870); Suleiman’s entry into Aleppo, 1548 (anonymous report, in Alberi, 3d series, i. 224 ff.); Suleiman’s reception of Captain Pinon in 1544 (Maurand, 207-225); Selim II’s reception of De Noailles in 1573 (Du Fresne-Canaye, 59-72); Ahmed I’s going to mosque, 1614 (Della Valle, 68-71); Ahmed I’s reception of the Venetian _Bailo_, 1615 (_ibid._ 98 ff.).