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Ma Huan
Ma Huan was a Chinese Muslim interpreter and traveller who accompanied three of the Ming treasure voyages of Zheng He in the early fifteenth century. His book Yingya Shenglan, "The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores", completed around 1451, describes the countries visited, from Java and Bengal to Calicut, Hormuz and Mecca, and is a major source for the Indian Ocean world of his time.
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