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0513 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 513 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000269
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The Turkish Admiral Sidi 'Ali, who was sent in 1553 to command the Ottoman fleet in the Persian Gulf, and has written an interesting account of his disastrous command and travels back to Constantinople from India, calls the Island Kais, or "the old Hormuz." This shows that the traditions of the origin of the island of Hormuz had grown dim. Kish had preceded Hormuz as the most prominent port of Indian trade, but old Hormuz, as we have seen (Bk. I. ch. xix.), was quite another place. (J. As. sér. 1, tom. ix. 67.)