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bang), called Shih Chi-sun (*), requested to succeed his father as Tmperial 

 Agent ( 2 ) ; Chêng Ho went to bring liim a seal and a commission and when 

 he came back the emperor Ch'êng-tsu had died. 



In the 2nd month of the year 1425 the emperor Jên-tsung ordered 

 Chêng Ho to be Guardian of Nanking with the troops which had subdned 

 the south; the office of Guardian of Nanking dates from this time. 



In the 6th month of the year 1430 the Emperor considered that he 

 had been on the throne so long now, but that those of the barbarians, who 

 lived a little far away, had not yet appeared at conrt and brought tribute; 

 upon this Chêng Ho and Wang Ching-hung again got orders to go to Hor- 

 mtis and sixteen other coimtries. From this voyage they came safely back. 



Chêng Ho had now served three emperors; he had been sent as 

 envoy seven times and had visited Champa, Java, Cambodja, Kukang, Siam, 

 Calicut , Malakka , Broenei , Sumatra , Aru , Cochin , Great Coilan , 

 Little Coilan, Soli and Western Soli, Cail, A-po-pa-tan, Comari, Ceylon, 

 Lambri, Pahang, Kalantan, Hormns, Pi-la, the Maldive islands, Snn-la 

 (Snnda?), Magadoxu, Ma-lin-la-sah , Dsaffar, Sa-li-wan-ni, Jubo (Dsheba), 

 Bengal, Arabia, Li-tai and Nakur ( 3 ), altogether more than thirty different 

 countries. He had brought back numberless valuable things, but what 

 China had spent on them was not little either. 



When he came back from his last voyage in the period Hsüan-tê 

 (1426 — 1435), the people from those remote countries still came continually, 

 but not in such numbers as in the time of the period Yung-lo (1403 — 1424); 

 Chêng Ho was now old and died soon afterwards. 



O ML JÜi tSi see UI1 der Palembang. 



( 2 ) *^ ^T fËw litt. envoy (agent abroad) of the office for gencral pacification (of thé 



foreign countries). We have seen functionaries of this office in Java during the Yuan dynasty (v. 

 pag. 22) and it secms that this title was now given by the Chinese Government to the headmen of 

 of the Chinese abroad. 



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