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Hong-wu: Year 20, Month 7, Day 28
10 Sep 1387
10 Sep 1387
The Messenger Tang Jing and so on returned from Cambodia. The envoy sent by the king of the country offered as tribute 59 elephants and 60,000 jin of aromatics. The country of Siam offered as tribute 10,000 jin of pepper and 100,000 jin of sapan-wood. The minister Kun Si-li Ji-la-shi-zhi-ti and others presented king-fisher feathers and aromatics.
Tai-zu: juan 183.4a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 6, page 2761
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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-7-day-28, accessed January 22, 2019