Note 10 — Relations of 1628–29

The Portuguese commander Albuquerque had in 1508 seized the more important ports on the eastern coast of ’Omân, which were then tributary to the ruler of Hormûz—a petty principality on the southern coast of Persia, afterward removed (about 1300 A.D.) to the island now called Hormûz (or Ormuz). The Portuguese exacted tribute from these towns, and from the ruler of Hormûz; and later coöperated with him in enforcing his authority over his tributaries, and defending him from foreign foes. They were expelled from ’Omân by its imam, Nâsir-bin-Murshid (who reigned from 1624 to 1649)—except from Máskat and el-Mátrah, which was accomplished by his successor, Sultân-bin-Seif, by 1652. See George P. Badger’s Imâms and Seyyids of ’Omân (Hakluyt Society’s publications, London, 1871), pp. xxii, 4, 46, 66–69, 74, 78–90.