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Yong-le: Year 6, Month 9, Day 28	(17 Oct 1408)

The Eunuch Director Zheng He and others were sent with Imperial orders to proceed as envoys to the countries of Calicut, Melaka, Samudera, Aru, Jia-yi-le, Java, Siam, Champa, Cochin, A-bo-ba-dan, Xiao Ke-lan, Nan-wu-li, and Gan-ba-li. They were also to confer brocades, fine silks and silk gauzes upon the kings of these countries.

Tai-zong: juan 83.3b

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 11, page 1114

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/605, accessed November 24, 2009.

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