chesmi

Updated: May 24, 2025

Ormuz, Chesmi, and Buschir, give her the mastery over the Persian Gulf, and the large rivers which flow into it. Aden secures the communication of Bombay with Suez. Pulo Pinang makes her mistress of the Straits of Malacca, and Singapore, of the passage between China and India.

Augustus J. Thebaud - Irish Race in the Past and the Present