[ [100] Mulugan, ibid.

[ [101] Quezimi, ibid.

[ [102] Baharem, ibid. Besides these islands, Ortelius has got Gicolar and Ficor, which names might have been made out of the above list from this very MS. by reading differently the names which are written in italics.

[ [103] Here there appears to be a gap in the MS. of three quarters of a line.

[ [104] Shah Ismail, King of Persia, contemporary of the writer of this MS. and founder of the Shiah rite as at present existing.

[ [105] Son-in-law. This account is like that of Ramusio and differs somewhat from the Portuguese.

[ [106] The origin of the Kizilbashes.

[ [107] Chalderan, 3rd Rejeb 920, or August 1514. Vicente Rocca, in his history of the Turks, printed at Valencia 1556, says that the corpses of many Persian women who had accompanied their husbands in disguise, were found after the battle, and that Sultan Selim ordered them to receive an honourable burial.

[ [108] This embassy came to Albuquerque when he was at Ormuz the last time, the envoy sent by Albuquerque was Fernan Gomez. San Roman Hist. de la India, pp. 239, and 246-249. Valladolid, 1603.

[ [109] Frat, with a Persian termination.