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# "The Portuguese of Hormuz Eat in Water, Because the Ground Is Very Hot"
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/portugaltsy-ormuza-ediat-v-vode-potomu-chto-zemlia-ochen-teplaia/
- Published: 2022-08-26T11:14:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:38:02.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, The East, Geography, Mores

"The Portuguese of Hormuz eat in water, because the ground is very hot." An illustration from a sixteenth-century Portuguese codex.

Quite so, and quite literally: that is exactly what they did. Fleeing the unbearable heat, the Portuguese who had settled in the Persian Gulf began to fill part of their houses with water.