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"Proceed along the coast until you come to two bridges," said the bird. "There you will find Hormuz. Give him two cups of wine to drink, then you can slay him. But be sure you take the diamond from his cap. I, the ziz, give you this warning." Rabba thanked the bird for its information, and with Ali continued on his journey.
"What mean you by those words?" demanded the king, angrily. "I speak only of what I have heard from their wise men," the vizier replied, hastily. "They hold the belief that they will be restored as a united people to their own land." "Under their own king?" interrupted Hormuz. "Under a descendant of the royal House of David," the vizier answered, solemnly. The king stamped his foot with rage.
We are ready. I will designate our place in the movement. Thou art dismissed." "O Prince! I have more to report." "More?" "A vessel came in to-day from Hormuz on the eastern shore, bringing a horde of beggars." "Bismillah! It was well I hired of thee a herd of camels, and loaded them with food. I shall pay my fine to the poor early." The Shaykh shook his head.
Perhaps the way these boats are tied and sewn together may have given rise to the legend alluded to by Sir John Maundeville when he saw them at the Isle of Hormuz. Many of the boats have curious-shaped stone anchors, and water casks of uniform and doubtless old-world shape.
The old man stooped to pick up the scimitar which had fallen from the king's grasp. "No, no," screamed Hormuz, fearing that he was to be slain. He scrambled to his knees and with clasped hands pleaded to the old man. "Take not my life," he begged. "Spare me, and I shall spare the last tree and cherish it tenderly." "So be it," said the old man, holding the sword above his head.
Deal fairly with thy subjects, and rest easy about the warfare of thine enemies, for with an upright prince his yeomanry is an army. They asked Hormuz, son of Nushirowan, "What fault did you find with your father's ministers that you ordered them into confinement?"
They could find no opening through which to pass, and while they were wondering what to do, a strange figure suddenly appeared on the wall. One of his legs was longer than the other, and his arms were also of different length. His ears and eyes were also unequal, and he hopped and bounded along the wall at amazing speed. "My name is Hormuz," he cried. "Who are ye?"
It helped to keep matters in this quiescent state, that the kings who ruled during this period had, in almost every instance, short reigns, four monarchs coming to the throne and dying within the space of a little more than twenty-one years. The first of these four was Hormisdates, Hormisdas, or Hormuz, the son of Sapor, who succeeded his father in A.D. 271.
The most important city of the southern region was at the time Obolla which was situated on a canal or backwater derived from the Euphrates, not far from the modern Busrah. It was the great emporium for the Indian trade, and was known as the limes Indorum or "frontier city towards India." The Persian governor was a certain Hormuz or Hormisdas who held the post with 20,000 men.
They told him this was a bewitched land, the country of Kishef, abounding with terrible monsters both on land and in the sea, and ruled over by a malignant jinn, named Hormuz, who gave them no peace. They asked Rabba to try and kill this sprite who said that only a stranger to the land could do him harm, and so Rabba and his faithful Ali, mounted on horses, set forth on their adventures.
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