_ 74 _ He in turn had four sons, Maqsud Shah, Shihabbudin, Salghur and Shah Vays, all of whom had turbulent reigns, Maqsud Shah, the eldest of ten years, Shihabbudin, eleven and Shah Vays, who was the last, one and a half years because Salgur, who was older, fled to al-Hasa whenhis brother rose against him and took the kingdom from him. With the left India for the second time in 1600. In the following year, 1601, he entered the Order of St. Augustine in the convent of Goa. Because Turun Shah died without an heir, he was succeeded by his cousin Mahmud Shah, who was in Goa and lived in his kingdom only fourteen days. He was succeeded by Tarak Shah when D. Pedro de Sousa was Captain of Ormuz, and it is he who is the present king, and has been for thirty-nine years. He is seventy years of age, a very indolent person and unfit to govern, addicted to wine and other intoxicants which often make him lose his sense. His behavior suggests that he is concerned with nothing, save to consume the resources of his kingdom, and although it is one of the wealthiest in those parts, the neglect of the viceroys and the activities of the captains and ministers of the king have so ruled in, that there is now nothing in it, save misery and troubles, evils that have consumed the whole of India because of the absence of law
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