Barley

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by Sally K. Church

Ma Huan comments in ca. 1433 that there was no barley or wheat in Champa, Java, Semudera (Samudra-Pasai), Ceylon and Cochin on Zheng He's journeys. However, it was present in Aden.

- J. V. G. Mills, trans., ed., Ma Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores [1433], Hakluyt Society Extra Series 42 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1970), pp. 82, 91, 117, 129, 137, 144, 157.