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Ma Huan (~1431) 
Ma Huan     明代   (?1431 AD)

in an outlandish manner.《瀛涯胜览》

  Words were Road, No. About Mount Qiao, Zhejiang Guiji (now Shaoxing) who believe in Islam; Ming interpreter (translator), he joined the Zheng He in 1413, 1421, in 1431 three times to the West: in person visit to Champa, Java , the old Hong Kong, Siam, Calicut, Hormuz, Malacca, yaru country assassination Sumatra, Ceylon, small Glen, Cochin, Calicut, children and other countries ancestral law; and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
  Ten year of Yongle (1413) a (third) visit to Champa, Java, the old Hong Kong, Siam, Calicut, Hormuz and other countries
  Wing-lok, 19 years (1421) (fourth) visit to Malacca, yaru country assassination Sumatra, Ceylon, Little Glen, Cochin, Calicut, Suffa children, Hormuz and other countries .
  Xuande six years (1431) (seventh) eunuch Ma Huan and other flood protection to dispatch envoys to the seven-day pilgrimage party.
  Ma Huan will be under the personal experience of the 20 Western States when the king, politics, customs, geographical, cultural, economic status record of, in Jingtai two years into a book called "Ying Ya Sheng Lan."
  Nansha Islands to the north of this he named Ma Huan Island
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  马欢,字宗道,号会稽山樵,浙江会稽(今绍兴)人,信奉回教;明代通事(翻译官),曾随郑和在1413年、1421年、1431年三次下西洋:亲身访问占城、爪哇、旧港、暹罗、古里、忽鲁谟斯、满剌加、亚鲁国、苏门答剌、锡兰、小葛兰、柯枝、古里、祖法儿等国; 并到麦加朝圣。
  永乐十一年(1413年)(第三次)到访占城、爪哇、旧港、暹罗、古里、忽鲁谟斯等国
  永乐十九年(1421年)(第四次)到访满剌加、亚鲁国、苏门答剌、锡兰、小葛兰、柯枝、古里、祖法儿、忽鲁谟斯等国。
  宣德六年(1431年)(第七次)太监洪保派遣马欢等七位使者到天方朝圣。
  马欢将下西洋时亲身经历的二十国的国王、政治、风土、地理、人文、经济状况纪录下来,在景泰二年成书,名为《瀛涯胜览》。
  今南沙群岛北部有以他命名的马欢
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  1. :  Ma Huan
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Nanshan Island