Albert Houtum-Schindler

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13 — Hormuz
Author: Albert Houtum-Schindler

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13 — Hormuz”, published in 1911, is a work by Albert Houtum-Schindler. It explores elements such as Hormuz, Portuguese and gulf.

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ The rise of the English trade and factories in the Indian seas in the beginning of the 17th century led to constant jealousies and broils with the Portuguese, and the successful efforts of the English company to open traffic with Persia especially embittered their rivals, to whom the possession of Hormuz had long given a monopoly of that trade. The officers of Shāh Abbās, who looked with a covetous and resentful eye on the Portuguese occupation of such a position, were strongly desirous of the aid of English ships in attacking Hormuz. ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ He calls it Ormes, a city strongly fortified and abounding in costly wares, situated on an island 5 m. distant from the main, having no trees and no fresh water, unhealthy and (as all evidence confirms) incredibly hot. Some years later it was visited more than once by Ibn Batuta, who seems to speak of the old city as likewise still standing. The new Hormuz, called also Jerun (i.e. still retaining the original name of the island) , was a great and fine city rising out of the sea, and serving as a mart for all the products of India, which were distributed hence over all Persia. ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ Of the old city hardly anything stands except a minaret, 70 ft. high, with a winding staircase inside and much worn away at the base, part of a former mosque used by the Portuguese as a lighthouse, but the traces of buildings, massive foundations constructed of stone quarried in the hills on the island, of many cisterns (some say 300) , &c., are numerous and extensive. The modern settlement, situated south of the fort on the eastern shore, has a population of about 1000 during the cool season, but less in the hot season, when many people go over to Minab on the mainland to the east. ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ The king acknowledged himself tributary to Portugal, and gave leave to the Portuguese to build a castle, which was at once commenced on the northern part of the island, commanding the city and the anchorage on both sides. ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ The climate of Hormuz, although hot, is, according to medical experts, the best in the Persian Gulf. Rain falls in January, February and March, and the annual rainfall is said to be about the same as that of Bushire, 12 to 13 in.
Capt. A. W. Stiffe in Geogr. Mag. (April 1874) ; William Foster in Geogr. Journal (Aug. 1894) ; writer’s notes taken on island. (A. H.-S.) ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ Constable and Stifle, Persian Gulf Pilot (1864) ; Bruce, Annals of the E. I. Company, &c. (1810) . (H. Y.)
The island has a circumference of 16 m. and its longest axis measures 41/2 m. The village is in 27° 6′ N., 56° 29′ E. The Portuguese fort still stands, but is sadly out of repair and much of its western wall has been undermined and washed away by the action of the sea. It is a bastioned fort with orillons and loopholed casemates under the ramparts and was separated from the town by a deep moat, now silted up, cut E.-W. across the isthmus and crossed by a bridge. ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ It was re-established, but at the time of Niebuhr’s visit to the gulf a few years later no European remained. Niebuhr mentions that in his time (c. 1765) Mulla ’Ali Shāh, formerly admiral of Nādir Shāh, was established on the island of Hormuz and part of Kishm as an independent chief.
See also Barros, Asia; Commentaries of Albuquerque, trans. by Birch (Hak. Society) ; Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira (Antwerp, 1610) ; Narratives in Hakluyt’s Collection (reprint in 1809, vol. ii.) and in Purchas’s Pilgrims, vol. ii.; Pietro della Valle, Persia, lett. ”

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Albert Houtum-Schindler, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13… (1911)

“ II. book x. c. 7, there is a curious detail of the revenue and expenditure of the kingdom of Ormuz, which would seem to exhibit the former as not more than £100,000. ↑ The attack on Kishm was notable in that one of the two Englishmen killed there was the great navigator Baffin. ”

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