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Towards the end of the T'ang dynasty, in the year 905, they sent tribute, 

 and the envoy, who was chief of their capital, got from the Emperor the 

 title of the General Who Pachies the Distant Countries. 



In the 9th month of the year 960 Si-ri-hu-ta-hia-li-t'an O sent an 

 envoy to bring tribute , which he repeated in the summer of the next year. In 

 the winter of the same year tribute was offered by a king of the name 

 Si-ri-wu-ya ( 2 ). 



In the spring of the year 962 the king Si-ri-wu-ya sent an embassy of 

 three envoys to bring tribute. They got back tails of the Yak (Bos grunniens 

 or poëphagus) , white porcelain , silver utensils , silk thread and two sets of 

 saddle and biïdle. 



In the year 971 one of the former envoys was sent to present crystals 

 and lamp-oil; in the next year he came again and in 974 they brought as 

 tribute ivory , olibanum , rosewater , dates and flat peaches , white sugar , crystal 

 finger-rings , glass bottles and coral-trees. The next year new envoys came, 

 who were presented with caps and girdles. 



In the year 980 their king Ha-ch'i (Hadji or Adji) ( 3 ) sent an envoy 

 and in the same year it was reported from Ch'au-chou, that a foreign mer- 

 chant from San-bo-tsai had arrived in that port with a cargo of perfumes , 

 medicines, drugs, rhinoceros-horns and ivory; as the wind had been ad- 

 verse he had been sixty days coming to Ch'au-chou. His perfumes and 

 drugs were all "carried to Canton ( 4 ). 



In the year 983 their king Ha-chi ( 5 ) sent an envoy avIio brought a 

 tribute of crystal , cotton cloth ( 6 ) , rhinoceros-horns , perfumes and drugs. 



In the year 985 the master of a ship came and presented products 

 of his country. 



In 988 an envoy arrived for the purpose of bringing tribute and in 



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(") That the arrival of a foreign ship was specially reported to the Emperor, does nol neces- 

 sarily show that it was a rare occirrrence, but it was probably done because Ch'au-chou (Swatow) was 

 not open to foreign trade. It seems that this ship put tnto Ch'au-choïi by stress of wealher and il 

 was next sent to Canton, where it should have gone at iirst. 



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