"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٤‎٠‎٩] (٦١٢/٥٧٠)

POSTSCKIPT.
On the Islands ofel-Kaii andel-Kishm,
Straf, in the Persian Gulf.
At p. in of the Introduction I assumed that the island of el-Kishm
was identical with el-Idrisy's Ki A sh or Kaish, but lighting subse-
quently upon the following note in Yule's Cathay and the Way
Thither, p. cxv, I deemed the subject worthy of further inves
tigation :—
" 1 have fallen into an error in the notes on Oderic (p. 52), and
thn^ fF' in co nfounding the large island of Kishm, near
te mouth of the Persian Gulf, with the much smaller Kais or
{ abou ^ j hundred mJes farther up, which last was the real
terminus of Indian trade for several ages, and the seat of a prin
cipality of 1 olo. At least two modern editors of Polo
seem to have made the same mistake. Yet Marco, I see, shows
the true approximate position of Quisci as two hundred miles
further up the Gulf than Hormuz. Kish, in the map before me,
{bteller s Hand Atlas), is termed Ouase or Kena."
The passage in Polo referred to (the latter clause of which is
omitted both by Ramusio and Marsden) I conceive to be the
following, as given at p. 195 of Pasini's edition "Leaving the
city of Calatu [Kalhdt, on the coast below Maskat, see ante, p.
37], and proceeding three hundred miles, between north-west and
north, the city of Cormos [Hormuz] is reached, and five hundred
miles from Calatu, between north-west and west, Chisi is found,"
The position here assigned to Chisi is conclusive against its
identification with el-Kishm, especially when we reflect that Polo
having personally visited Hormfiz, which is within sight of el-
Kishm, it is not likely that he would have placed it two hundred
miles farther off. At about one hundred and fifty miles, how
ever, west-and-by-south from Hormuz, stands a small island still
called el-Kais by the Arabs, though more familiarly known to