HORMOS.
The Travels of Pedro Teixeira, a Portuguese traveller, probably of Jewish
origin, certainly not a Jesuit, have been published by the Hakluyt
Society:
The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; with his "Kings of Harmuz," and extracts
from his "King of Persia." Translated and annotated by William F.
Sinclair, Bombay Civil Service (Rtd.); With further Notes and an
Introduction by Donald Ferguson, London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society,
MDCCCCII, 8 vo. 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. 1100.
