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the year 1418 the king sent envoys with tribute to the co.urt and sent these 

 men back at the same time; the Emperor praised the king in an edict and 

 sent also presents to the Javanese who had rescued them. 



In the year 1436 the imperial envoy Ma Yung-lang presented a me- 

 morial to the Emperor, saying that the former Javanese envoy Pa-ti ( 1 ), on 

 coming to court, had got a silver girdle, and as the present envoy, A-liet ( 2 ), 

 was a man of the fourth rank, he requested a golden girdle for him; his 

 request was granted. 



In the intercalary sixth month of the same year the envoys of Calicut, 

 Northern Sumatra , Cochin , Arabia , Cail , Aden , Hormus , Dsahffar , Comari 

 and Cambodja ( 3 ) were sent back together with the envoys of Java and the 

 Emperor gave a letter to the king of this country of the following contents : 

 //You, oh king! have never been remiss in performing the duty of sending 

 //tribute in the time of my ancestors and now that I have come to the 

 //throne, you have again sent envoys to court; I am fully con vinceel ofyour 

 //sincerity. Now, in the reign of my predecessor (1426 — 1435), Calicut and 

 //ten other countries have come to bring tribute, and as your envoys are going 

 //home, I have ordered those other envoys to go with them. I expect you 

 //will treat them kindly and send them back to their respective countries, in 

 //order to carry out my benevolent intentions towards those who live far 

 //away." 



In the year 1440 envoys who were going home, were shipwrecked 

 by a storm , fifty six men were drowned and eighty three saved ; they came 

 back to Canton and the Emperor gave orders to the authorities to provide 

 for them , until there should be a ship in which they could go diome. 



In the year 1443 the Governor of Canton presented a memorial,- 

 pointing out that the continual tribute of Java caused great expenses and 

 trouble, and that it was no good plan to injure China in order to benefit 

 those distant people. The Emperor adopted his views and when the en- 



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 T'ien-fang, Jjfl J| |j Ka-i-lih, |fój" f]- A-tan, ^ g =^ ^f Wu-lu-moh-su, jjj£ 

 ifc Èjf Tsu-fa-r, "U^ Q» JÊ. Kam-pa-li and ^ |[^ Cliin-lah; most of (licsc names are 



identiiicd ai'tcr Dr. E. Brettschneidcr : "On the knowlcdge possessed by 1hc anciont Chinese of the 

 Arabs and Arabian Colonies. London. Trübncr. 1871", and some after Mr. Phillips's notice inDoo- 

 little's Handbook etc. vol II, p. 555. 



