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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In the January number of this Journal there appeared a most interesting article by Mr. M. Longworth Dames on “The Portuguese and Turks in the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century”. The article furnishes an admirable introduction to this engrossing, if little known, subject; and it is only by way of supplement that I am writing the following notes.
page 548 note 1 “Amir Husayn finding himself surrounded on all sides and finding that Malik Ayaz was holding aloof, watching the battle without entering it himself, and seeing that he had put his reliance on the Fustas, which now seemed to have abandoned him, and being himself wounded and many of his men being wounded or dead, he secretly slipped away through the rudder-hole of his ship and let himself down on to a barge which he had there in readiness for such an emergency, and escaped disguised to a village where he hid, and whence he took a horse and proceeded to join the Governor of Cambay, for he feared Malik Ayaz because he could not trust him, as much as he feared our people on whose account he had shed so much blood.”
page 549 note 1 He is said to have been a Russian by birth.
page 553 note 1 Quṭb ud-Dín, however, says that when in a.h. 926 (a.d. 1519) Husayn Beg Rúmí was made Governor of Jedda he found there “a number of fully armed ships which Ḥusayn Kurdí had taken to India and had brought back again for Qánṣawh al-Ghawri.
page 556 note 1 One of the bastions on the strip of land which ran into the sea was meanwhile working havoc among Albuquerque's ships. This bastion was captured by Manuel de Lucerda, who cruelly put the garrison to death.
