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"with broad straw‐hats, like bonzes or talapoins, looking as sunburnt, vacant, and listless, as the inhabitants of Ormus or Bengal;"

"XL. —Returns to the City of Hormos 451 Notes.—1. Polo’s distances and bearings in these latter chapters. 2. Persian Bád-gírs or wind-catching chimneys. 3. Island of Kish."

"Of the ports mentioned as exporting horses to India we have already made acquaintance with Kais and Hormuz…"

"the boundary between Persia and India was seven days’ sail from Hormuz."

"the country of Hu-lu-mo-sz’ (Hormuz on the Persian Gulf) is mentioned as producing ostriches."

"The people are Saracens, and are subject to Hormos. In CHAPTER XL, the City of Hormos is described as a great and noble city on the sea."

"Now you must know that Great Turkey lies towards the north-west when you travel from Hormos by that road I described."

"Hormuz (Hormos, Curmosa), i. 83, 107, 110n, ii. 340, 348n, 370, 402n, 449, 451; trade with India, a sickly place, the people’s diet, i. 107, ii. 450"

"Mourning customs, at Hormuz, i. 109; in Tangut, 204; at Kinsay, ii. 191"

"You must know that the merchants of Kis and Hormes, Dofar and Soer and Aden collect great numbers of destriers and other horses…"