FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Chapter XII. p. [220-3].
[2] The Editor is further responsible for the account of the pirates, and of Shapour; and for the notes, except those within inverted commas, which are taken from MSS. of Mr. Morier.
[3] The Cadjars, according to Olivier, are a tribe of Turkish origin, who took refuge in Persia under the reign of Shah Abbas I. and received there the name of Cadjars or fugitives. See Foster, ii. 198. The historians of Nadir Shah mention (as one of the chiefs of that tribe, in the time of Shah Tahmas,) Futteh Ali Khan. Olivier states that in 1723 he was nominated to the government of Mazanderan; and that, when Nadir Shah assumed the crown, he resisted his authority, was defeated and killed. In Jones’s Nadir, lib. i. c. xi. there appears a Fethali Khan, whose history accords better with the allusion in the text, p. 242. Compare the Phatali Khan of Bell, vol. i. and Fraser’s Nadir Shah, p. 89. His eldest son was Mahomed Hassan Khan, whose pretensions and rise and fall are stated fully by Olivier, vol. vi. 13-17-82, and whose history, (under his various names of Baba Khan, Mumtaz Khan, Fultra Alla Khan, &c.) is noticed in Franklin, p. 299. Ives, p. 220. Foster, vol. ii. 199. Tooke’s Catherine, ii. 60, Scott Waring, &c. &c.
[4] Ismael was said by his first patron, Ali Merdan Khan Backtyari, to be the son of Seyd Moustapha, by a daughter of Shah Hussein. Olivier, vi. 21. He was the pageant recognised by three several competitors; he was first proclaimed King by Ali Merdan, again in 1756, by Kerim; and a third time, in the same year, by Mahomed Hassan, who, like his immediate rivals, and like Nadir, still in his first successes professed himself to be the slave of the rightful monarch.
[5] “He made no scruple of avowing that in his youth he pursued the occupation of a robber; and that his fore teeth had been demolished by the kick of an ass which he had stolen and was carrying off.” Foster’s Travels, vol. ii. p. 241.
[6] The treaty forms the Appendix to General Malcolm’s Political History of India, p. 533-549.
[7] The Malana of Vincent’s Nearchus, p. 197. Horseburgh notices it very slightly, “in coasting to the westward from Hinglah, another point called Muran is discerned.” p. 231. “Directions, &c.”
[8] The log of the Nereide, Sept. 26th, seems to refer to it, as “the above island.”
[9] In 1581, the Portuguese (according to their historian Faria y Sousa) after having surprised and burnt “the beautiful and rich city Pesani,” destroyed “Guadel, not inferior.” Asia Portuguesa, vol. ii. 373. They appear to have had afterwards a settlement there themselves; vol. iii. p. 416; which before 1613 had probably been resumed from its European possessors, for Herbert in passing it, observes, “beware by Sir Robert Sherlye’s example of Cape Guader *** an infamous port and inhabited by a perfidious people. Under pretext of amity they allured Sherlye and his lady ashoare, A. 1613; where but for a Hodgee that understood their drift and honestly revealed it, they had been murdered with Newport their captaine; and merely to play the theeves with them.” Herbert’s Travels, p. 113. Ed. 1638.