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a year ■ in order to satisfy the wishes of the people ; at last they requested 

 that the time for bringing tribute and the number of persons who were to 

 accompany it, might be fixed. 



The Emperor acceded to all these wishes; he ordered that tribute 

 shoulcl be sent once in three years and that the number of persons coming 

 with it, should depend upon the king's pleasure. He also gave an order to 

 Java, telling them not to ask any more the annual tribute of this country. 



When the king took his leave, he was presented with a girdle adorned 

 with precious stones, a hundred ounces of gold, three thousand ounces of 

 silver, paper-money, embroidered silks, gauze, coveiiets, mattrasses, musqui- 

 to-curtains and other furniture. His followers also got presents, and the 

 eunuch Chang Ch'ien and the messenger Chau Hang were sent to escort him. 



Eomaerly the late king had made a representation to the effect that, 

 having got a title by favour of the Emperor and his country now being alto- 

 gether subject to the imperial government, he begged that the mountain- 

 range at the back of his kingdom might be made a guard to his country. 

 The new king preferred the same request and so it was called : //the mountain 

 of lasting tranquillity , preserving the country (})." The Emperor wrote an in - 

 scription for a stone , which he ordered Chang Ch'ien and his party to erect 

 on the top of it. 



(This inscription contains an eulogy on the deceased king and the ordinary 

 extollation of China and its civilizing influence over the barbarians , of which we have 

 had more than enough already. As it lias no allusions useful for our purpose, we 

 may spare ourselves the trouble of translating , and our readers of wading through it). 



In the 9th month of the year 1410 Chang Ch'ien and his party 

 returned to China and the king sent envoys with them, in order to carry 

 tribute and to present thanks for the imperial favours. 



The next year Chang Ch'ien was sent again to present the king with 

 flowered silk, silk-gauze and silk of various colours, altogether one hundred 

 and twenty pieces; his functionaries also got presents. 



In the 9th month of the year 1412 Hia-wang came to court with his 

 mother. The Emperor gave orders to the officers of the Board of Rites to lodge 

 them in one of the imperial pavilions and to provide for all their meals. 

 The day after their arrival the Emperor entertained the king at the Fêng- 



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