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Yong-le: Year 10, Month 11, Day 15	(18 Dec 1412)

The eunuch director Zheng He and others were sent to take Imperial orders to the kings of the countries of Melaka, Java, Champa, Samudera, Aru, Cochin, Calicut, Nan-bo-li, Pahang, Kelantan, Jia-yi-le, Hormuz, Bi-la, Liu-shan and Sun-la, and to confer upon them brocaded fine silks, silk gauzes, variegated thin silks and other goods as appropriate.

Tai-zong: juan 134.3a

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 12, page 1639

Geoff Wade, translator, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource, Singapore: Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/entry/1902, accessed November 24, 2009.

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