The Ming Voyages: Cities and Regions in the Travellers' Texts

Places Discussed by Ma Huan, Fei Xin, and Gong Zhen 

The places that captured the attention of the three writers, Ma Huan, Fei Xin, and Gong Zhen, are listed below. Not all the same places are treated by all three writers, therefore the following table indicates which are treated in each work:  

 

Location	Ma Huan |	Fei Xin |	Gong Zhen
Champa	x	x	x
Java	x	x	x
Palembang	x	x	x
Siam	x	x	x
Melaka	x	x	x
Aru [Deli]	x		x
Samudra	x	x	x
Nagur	x		x
Lide	x		x
Lambri	x		x
Ceylon	x	x	x
Quilon	x	x	x
Cochin	x	x	x
Calicut	x	x	x
Nicobar & Andaman Islands	x	x
Maldives & Laccadives	x	x	x
Dhufar	x	x	x
Aden	x	x	x
Bengal	x	x	x
Hormuz	x	x	x
Makkah	x	x	x
Panduranga		x
Cape Varella		x
Pulau Condore		x
Gelam Islet		x
Pulau Sembilan		x
Country of the Tattooed Faces		x
Langasuka		x
Pulau Rondo		x
La'sa		x

 

In addition, Fei Xin included chapters on places which he did not visit personally but heard about from others who did visit them. These are: Cambodia, Pulau Aur, Tamiang, Singapore Strait, Langkawi, Timor, Pahang, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, Three Islands, Mait, Karimata, Janggala, Borneo, Sulu, Giumbo, Mogadishu, and Brawa.

A digitised version of Mills' gazetteer, "China in Southern Asia", is reproduced [here].

Sources

J. V. G. Mills, Ma Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan, "The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores," [1433], Hakluyt Society (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1970).