(Ferrier, 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.
