_ 72 _ of Kiš had a desert island called Jarun attached to his realm through whose port passed all the ships that entered the Gulf, and keeping his intentions concealed. He negotiated with the Lord of Kiš to sell him the island which was of no use to him being so sterile that not a single blade of grass grew there, and there was nothing but mountains of salt and sulfur, with no water or anything from which profit could be made; as it still today. Malek Kish, not guessing Grodu Shah’s intensions, sold him the island of Jarun, in spite of his mother’s opposition, and it is said that she foretold what was to happen thereafter. Grodu Shah, once he was Lord of the island, ordered that it was to be populated, and he built a fleet by which means he began to attract there all the ships which used to go to Kiš, granting privileges to merchants in dues and the buying and selling of their goods, so that they began to frequent the island and everything started to leave the island of Kiš. This led to fighting between the two Moors, and as Grodu Shah was already rich and powerful, not only could he defend himself, but he also went to capture the island of Kiš to make himself Lord of the whole State. Malek Kish was a vassal of the King of Persia, to whom he sent to ask for help against his enemy, but by the time
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