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Hong-wu: Year 20, Month 8, Day 20

2 Oct 1387

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The minister Xin-jia-duo and others who had been sent by A-da-a-zhe, the king of the country of Champa, offered as tribute 51 elephants, "jia-nan" wood, rhinoceros horn and other products. It was Imperially commanded that 20 bolts of patterned fine silks interwoven with gold brocade and four bolts of brocade be conferred upon their king.

Tai-zu: juan 184.3b

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 7, page 2768

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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/reign/hong-wu/year-20-month-8-day-20, accessed January 22, 2019