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CHAP. XXII. p. 128.   HORMOS.   25

London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, MDCCCCII, 8vo.

pp. cvii 292.

See Appendix A. A Short Narrative of the Origin of the

Kingdom of Harmusz, and of its Kings, down to its Conquest

by the Portuguese ; extracted from its History, written by

Torunxa, King of the Same, pp. 153-195. App. D. Relation

of the Chronicle of the Kings of Ormuz, taken from a Chronicle

composed by a King of the same Kingdom, named Pachaturunza,

written in Arabic, and summarily translated into the Portuguese

language by a friar of the order of Saint Dominick, who founded

in the island of Ormuz a house of his order, pp. 256-267.

See Yule, Hobson- Jobson, s.v. Ormus.

Mr. Donald Ferguson, in a note, p. 155, says : " No dates are

given in connection with the first eleven rulers of Hormuz ; but

assuming as correct the date (1278) given for the death of the

twelfth, and allowing to each of his predecessors an average

reign of thirteen years, the foundation of the kingdom of

Hormuz would fall in A.D. II00. Yule places the founding

somewhat earlier ; and Valentyn, on what authority I know

not, gives A.D. 700 as the date of the founder Muhammad."

XIX., I., p. 116 ; II., p. 444.

DIET OF THE GULF PEOPLE.

Prof. E. H. Parker says that the T'ang History, in treating

of the Arab conquests of Fuh-lin [or Frank] territory; alludes to

the " date and dry fish diet of the Gulf people." The exact

Chinese words are : " They feed their horses on dried fish, and

themselves subsist on the hu-mang, or Persian date, as Bret-

schneider has explained." (Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904,

P. 134.)

~d   Bretschneider, in Med. Researches, II., p. 134, n. 873, with

regard to the dates writes : " Wan nien tsao, ` ten thousand years'

jujubes' ; called also Po-sze tao, or ` Persian jujubes.' These

names and others were applied since the time of the T'ang

dynasty to the dates brought from Persia. The author of the

Pen ts'ao kang mu (end of the sixteenth century) states that this

fruit is called k'u-lu-ma in Persia. The Persian name of the date

is khurma."

Cf. CHAU JU-KWA, p. 2I0.

XXII., p. 128 n.

TUN—O—KAIN.

Major Sykes had adopted Sir Henry Yule's theory of the