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is held by better right than some other kingdoms in the world,
yet our kings, with Christian scrupulosity, do not fail to maintain
undisputed therein the legitimate succession of the native kings
to this very day. And the sons succeed their fathers as of old,
but with this difference : that, whereas they once enjoyed free and
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sc independent sovereignty, they now hold under written grant of
. .. our Lord the King, whereby he allows of their succession in that
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v:-! kingdom.
n;:i There rule is not1 absolute, except in respect of the Moors,
their subjects, and even in that case there are limits to it. They
iii1 cannot leave the isle without permission of the Portuguese cap­
lr! tain, who used to grant it in former years, but does not now let
F them go.
hi'- Now all that happened since in that kingdom has been written
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at large, not only in the Commentaries of Alfonso de Albuquerque,2
Sii but in the second book of the Second Decade of Iuan de Bayrros.3
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So I do not undertake it.4 But if any inquirer, finding himself at
! .. •: Harmuz, should wish to ask about the deeds of Alfonso de Albu­
querque (which indeed were and are worthy of perpetual memory),
| to poison Muhammad Shdh (Castanheda, Liv. vm, cap. xlix ; Correa,
let him ask the Moors about Malandy. For they know him by
no other name, and use that when they mention his transactions.5
iii- This puzzled me for awhile, until I understood that he had that
t!i name because he sailed thither from Melinde, which they call
t'f Maland, and a man or thing coming thence Malandy. Herewith
S; I hope that the friendly reader will be content, making allowance
-M' for my deficiencies.
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; END OF THE KINGS OF HORMUZ.
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was captured from the Portuguese by a combined Persian and English
?■ force, and the glory of Hormuz came to an end (see VAmbuscade
de D. Garcias de Silva Figueroa, p. 457 ct scq.; Purcluis his Pilgrimes,
vol. ii, p. 1787 ct seq. ; Sir T. Herbert’s Travels, 1677, p. 109 ei scq. ;
j Calendar of State Papers, Col. Ser., East Indies, etc., 1622-1624,
passim, and Preface, pp. lxv-lxix ; Capt. Stiffe’s paper in Gcog. Mag.,
I- April 1874, PP- 15> 16; Malcolm’s History of Persia, vol. i, p. 362 ;
Yule’s art. “Ormus,” in Encycl. Brit., 9th ed., vol. xvii ; Burton’s
fl 1 Camoens : Life and Lusiads, vol. iv, p. 508).—D. F.
1 “Nos," a misprint.
! Couto states that the two princes deported by Nuno da Cunha (as
2 The first edition of which appeared in 1576 (see Hakluyt Soc.
trans., vol. i, Introduction, p. iv).—D. F.
3 Cf. Teixeira’s introductory note to the reader, supra, after Intro­
duction.—D. F.
4 For the later history of Hormuz, see, in addition to the works
mentioned by Teixeira, Barros’s Dec. Ill, Couto’s Decs. IV-XII,
Bocarro’s so-called Dec. XIII, and Doc. Rem., tom. i-iv.—d. f.
s I have found no confirmation of this statement ; and the explana­
tion that follows seems rather far-fetched.—D. F.
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KINGS OF HORMUZ. m
[Though after the capture of Hormuz by the Portuguese its “kings”
became mere puppets in their hands, it may be useful to give the
names of those who bore nominal rule, until the final ejection of the
Portuguese by the Persians in 1622. According to Couto (Dec. V,
Liv. IX, cap. x), “Ceifadim reigned ten years, and was succeeded by
his brother Torunxd, who reigned nine years.” It was in 1515,
apparently, that this change of rulers took place ,* and Correa (tom. ii,
p. 420), who calls the new king “Turuxa,” says he was then twenty-
two years of age, and that his mother was an Abyssinian. The
Comment, of Af. Dalb. (vol. iv, p. 109) calls him “Terunxa.”
According to Barros (Dec. Ill, Liv. vn, cap. v), Castanheda (Liv. v,
cap. lxxxviii), and Correa (tom. ii, p. 699), this “king” was poisoned
by his wazir, who substituted in his place “a youth of some thirteen
years, by name Mahamud Xd, son of the late King Ceifadim”
(Barros: Castanheda calls him “ Patx<l Mahmetxd”). This took place
in the early part of 1522. Couto (u.s.) simply says that to “ Torunxd”
succeeded “ Mahamed Xd, who reigned nine years, and was son of
Ceifadim.” (The Comment, of Af. Dalb., vol. iv, pp. 174, 190, speaks
of two sons of “ Ceifadin,” who in 1515 were boys of eight or nine.)
In 1532 a brother of the king's, a youth of eighteen, named “ Rayx
Ale” or “ Rexealle,” was deported to Goa on an accusation of plotting
tom. iii, p. 460). The latter died in 1534, and in his place the
Portuguese captains at Hormuz elected a son of his, only eight years
of age. He, however, was poisoned soon after by order of his uncle at
Goa, “ Rayx Ale,” who, being the next heir, succeeded to the throne
(Castanheda, Liv. vm, cap. lxxvi). But in 1541 the latter was again
deported to Goa on charges of madness and drunkenness (Correa,
tom. iv, pp. 160, 210, 270, ffi); but two years later he was restored to
his position (Correa, tom. iv, p. 338). He did not long survive,
however. Couto (u. s.) says that on the death of “ Ceifadim” there
succeeded “Xargol Xd, son of Torunxd, who was the one that Nuno
da Cunha ordered to be deported from Ormuz to avoid divisions in
the kingdom, and kept him in Cochin, where he had a son named
Torunxd, by an Abyssinian mother named Bibigazeld, because they
say she had eyes like a gazelle’s. This Xargol was afterwards sent
by Nuno da Cunha to succeed to the throne, on his receiving news of
the death of King Ceifadim............... He died in the past November
of 1543,” by poison, says Correa (tom. iv, p. 399). His son, “Torunxd,”
a boy of twelve, was sent from Goa to succeed him (Couto, u. s.;
Correa, 11. s.), and arrived in Hormuz in March 1544 (Couto, Dec. V\
Liv. x, cap. iii). Owing to the loss of Couto’s Eighth, Ninth, and
Eleventh Decades, the dates of the accessions of the succeeding rulers
are somewhat difficult to ascertain. In Dec. VII, Liv. x, cap. vii,
mentioned above) were the father of “Torunxa” and the latter’s uncle,
“ Babuxa,” the last of whom married in Goa a Moor woman of Dabul,
by whom he had a son, “ Ferragoxa.” After an exile of “ nearly forty
years” (really thirty-three), and being ninety years old and decrepit,
“ Babuxa,” wishing to lay his bones in his native island, obtained
leave to accompany D. Pedro de Sousa, who was going thither as
captain in 1562, and to take his son “ Ferragoxa” with him. From
what Couto says, it is evident that soon afterwards (probably in 1563)
“ Turuxa” died, after a reign of nearly twenty years, and the aged
“ Babuxa” was elected to succeed him. Naturally, at such an
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