_ 151 _ Episodes of the year 1582 A description of Ormuz Island, as well as a description of the fortresses on the coast of Oman and Mozambique, came in 1582:(34) Chapter: Seven The fortress and island of Ormuz. At the entrance to the Persian Sea (which the ancients called Sinu Persico), there is a distance of about fifteen leagues between the coasts of Arabia and Persia in which there are some small islands of which the chief and largest is the island of Ormuz. It lies at latitude 27 north, three leagues from the mainland of Persia and ten from the coast of Arabia. The island is little more than three leagues in circumference, it is all very sterile and does not possess naturally a single (34) Document no. and reference.
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