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Yong-le: Year 8, Month 9, Day 9
7 Oct 1410
7 Oct 1410
The envoy Ji Biao and others who had been sent by Zhan-ba Di-lai, the king of the country of Champa, offered tribute of elephants, gold and silver utensils and other products. Variegated silks, as appropriate, were conferred upon Ji Biao and the others. The Ministry of Rites was ordered to send the Eunuch Ma Bin to escort Ji Biao on his return journey and to take Imperial orders together with brocades and silk gauzes to confer upon their king.
Tai-zong: juan 108.1b
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 12, page 1396
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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-8-month-9-day-9, accessed January 22, 2019