[Footnote 16: The history of Ormuz is not unlike that of
Tyre. The old city, on the continent, was destroyed by the
Tartars, and renewed in a neighboring island, without fresh
water or vegetation. The kings of Ormuz, rich in the Indian
trade and the pearl fishery, possessed large territories
both in Persia and Arabia; but they were at first the
tributaries of the sultans of Kerman, and at last were
delivered (A.D. 1505) by the Portuguese tyrants from the
tyranny of their own viziers, (Marco Polo, l. i. c. 15, 16,
fol. 7, 8. Abulfeda, Geograph. tabul. xi. p. 261, 262, an
original Chronicle of Ormuz, in Texeira, or Stevens's
History of Persia, p. 376 - 416, and the Itineraries
inserted in the ist volume of Ramusio, of Ludovico Barthema,
(1503,) fol. 167, of Andrea Corsali, (1517) fol. 202, 203,
and of Odoardo Barbessa, (in 1516,) fol 313 - 318.)]