Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c11.29

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accounts of the Chinese ambassadors who visited them, must have furnished excellent materials to the official Chroniclers who incorporated accounts of these foreign lands in the histories of the Imperial dynasties. A number of Chinese travellers also visited these far-off lands and recorded short accounts of the countries visited by them. The traders from these lands also imparted valuable information to Chinese officials. Thus the Chinese annals possess a store of information about Malayasia, which in quality and quantity far exceed, in importance, what we know from other foreign sources. In view of this, and as frequent references have been made to these Chinese sources in the text, we give here a short account of the Chinese texts on which we have principally relied.