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THE PREFACE OF ^ ^ ^ CHOW-HEO-KUKG, 



OP tHB BAN'LUV COLLBOK. 



In old time there were Ji*> accounta of the Q weaiero 

 ocean. D»iring: the ^ Chow dynnsty, ihe Emperor^ Mflh 

 paid a vUii to ^ 3E moUjer of th^ western king ' 



but the ex lent of jouruey reached only as far as bis ^ 

 @ eicjht etaeds could carry him * ; previous lo that time th« 

 race of ^ ^ Yue-ehang c&ine sailing over iLe aeae, with 

 their double inierpreters, when "j^ ^ YuAii-kung (or ^ ^ 

 Chow-lcung) constructed a ^ aomli-poioting car- 



riage to direei thorn m tJiek hooM^watd eourie i ihm people. 

 ho«!effer, merely tame fr<}m tbe eo»th*«asifini part of the 

 Qceao, f 



Td the time of Lhft Emperor ^ ^ Seti*n-tTh. of the 

 Ming dynasty, (a t>. 1430,) th*i order for 3E S ^jt W«fig- 

 satj-jJtri (□ piv^/- towards th?i waatern odean, rn/-^tL^^^ 

 paae of ooliecutj^ pc^iU- ^^tVu ijrt^ious chinge. it rf^corded ii 

 th«,imioi}at hiat^ry ; \m road l^y through ^ Cochi 

 ^ina westward, but the cliart of that coiintrf was conceal& 

 by the superintendant ^ ^ L^w-ia-hga, who hw 

 no desire *o paw over the eca: by whieb m^ans the track 

 the western oceaii remaitied unknown 



Our govern Ewe>nt, extensively o^erfipreadin^ all. things aa 

 (be heawi do the eanb, has caused, its unfathomable favour 

 overwhelmingly to r^ach to the islands of t>^e fett : fio thi*t' 

 all who have Hood and breath without eiceplion honoui 

 their parenta ; and even the people of ihe western ocean ( the 



• In l7Lh tf^*.rof Miib-wan3-(B. 983) Taaou-foo, beine fti 

 pt>od iharioteer. ohtiiined tha favour of the monarch ; the latter hftvingl 

 procured a Btud of eiirht hor^es^ went on a hunting expedition to th« 

 wa«t, snd was bo ddithted ihat he did not thirsk of returHitiff, till 

 -smTvelled hv a revoltjlmn in hh own counlry. f^r^^nhSne?? H ^tcry, 

 tended to the trfln=iUt'on of the Sh^o-kina'' r.^cc 3^3 ) 



In tlie 6th yenr of OJoe-wane Cb. o 10701 the Tw%«nl« of YiiS- 

 sr ra»n'» f iTi th<» rt^irioii pifiiith f Cochin-chiTia, mnkirn^ u«e 

 interpreiars. They wpr-: ho^rever lynonint of the way borne 

 C^ w.kunir Tkreeented thera with five carriasrea, all oJF which 

 'fbward, by h*lp of whi mesaengieraj after a roar^" 



' '^--^e. rSead- 378.) 



