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WHO IS HO CHENG IN OLD DINASTY OF CHINA?
-- JAYRELL C. GONZALES (GENNIRIODAN@YAHOO.COM), September 27, 2002
Now transliterated, "Zheng He." He was the great eunuch Ming Dynasty admiral whose fleets sailed to Ceylon, Arabia, Kenya, and Madagascar in the middle of the fifteenth century.
-- Brad DeLong (delong@econ.berkeley.edu), April 04, 2003.