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Yong-le: Year 4, Month 12, Day 26
3 Feb 1407
3 Feb 1407
The envoys who had been separately sent by the king of the country of Bo-ni and the Eastern and Western kings of the country of Suo-luo, presented memorials and offered tribute to the Court. The Ministry of Rites was ordered to confer upon the kings patterned fine silks and silk gauzes, to confer upon each of the envoys 100 ding of paper money and four bolts of silk gauze and to confer upon the interpreters and attendants rewards as appropriate.
Tai-zong: juan 62.5a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 11, page 897
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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/yong-le/year-4-month-12-day-26, accessed January 22, 2019