, H. of the Afghans_, 102; _J. R. G. S._ XXVI. 217; _Khan.
Mem._ 210.)

NOTE 6.--The History of Hormuz is very imperfectly known. What I have met
with on the subject consists of--(1) An abstract by Teixeira of a
chronicle of Hormuz, written by Thuran Shah, who was himself sovereign of
Hormuz, and died in 1377; (2) some contemporary notices by Wassaf, which
are extracted by Hammer in his History of the Ilkhans; (3) some notices
from Persian sources in the 2nd Decade of De Barros (ch. ii.). The last do
not go further back than Gordun Shah, the father of Thuran Shah, to whom
they erroneously ascribe the first migration to the Island.

One of Teixeira's Princes is called _Ruknuddin Mahmud_, and with him
Marsden and Pauthier have identified Polo's Ruomedam Acomet, or as he is
called on another occasion in the Geog. Text, _Maimodi Acomet_. This,
however, is out of the question, for the death of Ruknuddin is assigned to
A.H. 675 (A.D. 1277), whilst there can, I think, be no doubt that Marco's
account refers to the period of his return from China, viz. 1293 or
thereabouts.

We find in Teixeira that the ruler who succeeded in 1290 was _Amir
Masa'ud_, who obtained the Government by the murder of his brother
Saifuddin Nazrat. Masa'ud was cruel and oppressive; most of the
influential people withdrew to Bahauddin Ayaz, whom Saifuddin had made
Wazir of Kalhat on the Arabian coast. This Wazir assembled a force and
drove out Masa'ud after he had reigned three years. He fled to Kerman and
died there some years afterwards.

Bahauddin, who had originally been a slave of Saifuddin Nazrat's,
succeeded in establishing his authority. But about 1300 great bodies of
Turks (i.e. Tartars) issuing from Turkestan ravaged many provinces of
Persia, including Kerman and Hormuz. The people, unable to bear the
frequency of such visitations, retired first to the island of Kishm, and
then to that of Jerun, on which last was built the city of New Hormuz,
afterwards so famous. This is Teixeira's account from Thuran Shah, so far
as we are concerned with it. As regards the transfer of the city it agrees
substantially with Abulfeda's, which we have already quoted (supra,
note 1).

Hammer's account from Wassaf is frightfully confused, chiefly I should
suppose from Hammer's own fault; for among other things he assumes that
Hormuz was always on an island, and he distinguishes between the Island of
Hormuz and the Island of Jerun! We gather, however, that Horm