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Zheng-tong: Year 11, Month 4, Day 5
30 Apr 1446
30 Apr 1446
The envoys sent by the country of Java offered tribute of a white parrot and a cassowary (?火雞). A banquet as well as suits of clothing, variegated silks and other goods, as appropriate, were conferred upon them.
Ying-zong: juan 140.1b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 28, page 2770
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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/zheng-tong/year-11-month-4-day-5, accessed January 22, 2019