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Hong-wu: Year 8, Month 9, Day 29
24 Oct 1375
24 Oct 1375
The minister Tan-meng Ma-ha-ma and others who had been sent by Seng Jia-lie Yu-lan, the king of the country of San-fo-qi, accompanied Pu-la, the Court envoy who had been sent to instruct the country of Fu-lin, and came to Court, presented a memorial and offered tribute of local products. It was Imperially commanded that 24 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 be conferred upon the envoy and that a bolt of silk be conferred upon each of the interpreters and attendants.
Tai-zu: juan 101.2b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 4, page 1708
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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-8-month-9-day-29, accessed January 22, 2019