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Hong-zhi: Year 8, Month 9, Day 8
29 Sep 1495
29 Sep 1495
Six yi persons from the country of Siam, including a person named Ai Wa, had been blown in their ship to the territory of Qiong-zhou Prefecture. The Guang-dong Surveillance Commission advised. It was ordered that they be provided with food grain and that when a yi tribute envoy was returning, he should be instructed to take them back to their country.
Xiao-zong: juan 104.2a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 55, page 1901
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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-zhi/year-8-month-9-day-8, accessed January 22, 2019