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• Starting from Taicang and taking the seas, we have by way of the countries of Champa, Siam, Java, Cochin and Calicut reached Hormuz and other countries of the western regions, more than thirty countries in all. We have beheld in the ocean huge waves
• The circumference of our Earth is 40,075 km or 80,150 li. Does the inscription reveal that Zheng He’s fleets had already explored the whole world?
• sparked a continuing and lively worldwide debate over the extent of Zheng He’s last two voyages. Menzies claimed that the Ming Treasure Fleet had circumnavigated the globe, “discovering” most of the world.
• However, there can be no more than one truth, even if the process of seeking the…
• or An Account of the Western World Voyage of the San Bao Eunuch, written by Luo Maodeng (罗懋登) in 1597,[3] is made from a fresh angle, first eliminating its fanciful portions and then verifying Luo’s hidden narrative about Zheng He’s seventh voyage to the Western Ocean against other ancient and modern Chinese and western records. I discovered that L...