The five chambers of pages, under the control of white eunuchs, and the doorkeepers supplied the inside service of the principal palace. The head of this service was the _Kapu Aghasi_, or “general of the gate,” a white eunuch, who was also charged with the management of many religious endowments. He had the right to speak to the sultan when he wished,[444] and hence was very highly regarded. The _Kapuji-bashi_, or head doorkeeper, was also a white eunuch, who had charge constantly of the second gate of the principal palace, with a company of twenty or more white eunuchs who were guards under him.[445] The pages have already received attention from the educational point of view. Nearest the person of the sultan were the pages of the _Khas Oda_, or Inner Chamber, of whom there were probably thirty-nine, the sultan himself being reckoned the fortieth.[446] A number of these pages later bore the title of _Agha_, but they seem not to have done so in Suleiman’s time. Their chief officer was the _Khas Oda-bashi_, or head of the Inner Chamber, one of the pages in Suleiman’s day, but in later times a white eunuch. The pages of highest rank were the _Silihdar_, who outside the palace carried the sultan’s weapons, the _Chokadar_, who carried his garments, and the _Sharabdar_, or cup-bearer.[447] The others took care of his apartments and his wardrobe, and brought his food to him. The second group of pages constituted the _Khazineh Odassi_, or treasury, under a well-paid white eunuch, the inside _Khazinehdar-bashi_. These, to the number of sixty or seventy, cared for all the treasures in the sultan’s palace, made all payments, and kept all accounts.[448] Another _Khazinehdar-bashi_ took care of all the financial affairs of the inside service which needed attention outside the palace walls. The _Kiler Odassi_, or pantry, under a white eunuch called the _Kilerji-bashi_, cared for the bread, pastry, and game of the sultan; their chief controlled also the kitchen service of the palace. The pages of this chamber seem not yet to have finished their education.[449] They, together with the pages of the Inner Chamber, rode with the sultan whenever he left the palace. The remaining two chambers, the Large and the Small, or the Old and the New, were concerned wholly with the education of the pages.[450] They were under the general direction of the _Ikinji-Kapu-oghlan_, or eunuch of the second gate.[451] The entire personnel of the inside service amounted to from six to eight hundred persons. The eunuch officers maintained severe discipline, exact obedience, and perfect order among them all.[452] The groups of eunuchs who had charge of the colleges of pages in Pera and Adrianople may also be reckoned in the inside service. It would seem that the accounts of all these palaces were kept as one, and that therefore the chief officers of the principal palace must have supervised the officers of the others.[453] THE OUTSIDE SERVICE