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Hong-wu: Year 7, Month 9, Day

Oct/Nov 1374

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In this month, the minister Mo-na-xia-deng and others, who had been sent by Ma-na-da Bao-lin-bang, the king of the country of San-fo-qi, presented a memorial and offered tribute of local products. It was ordered that the calendar Da Tong Li and 40 bolts of patterned fine silks and silk gauzes interwoven with gold thread be conferred upon the king, that two bolts each of fine silks and silk gauzes as well as a set of clothing be conferred upon the principal envoy, that a bolt of patterned fine silk be conferred upon the deputy envoy and that a bolt of Korean cloth be conferred upon each of the attendants.

Tai-zu: juan 93.4b-5a

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 4, page 1626/27

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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-7-month-9-day, accessed January 22, 2019