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Zheng He was a Muslim from Yunnan, captured as a boy by the Ming armies and made a eunuch in the household of the prince who became the Yongle Emperor. On 11 July 1405 that emperor sent him into the Western Ocean: 317 ships and 27,800 men went down the Yangtze from Nanjing that autumn — the largest fleet the world had yet seen, and larger than anything Europe would put to sea for 300 years.
They took the north-east monsoon to Champa, then Java, where a Majapahit civil war killed 170 of the fleet's men who happened to be ashore. Then Palembang, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, and the pepper ports of the Malabar coast, ending at Calicut.
Coming home, the fleet stopped at Palembang, where a Chinese pirate named Chen Zuyi offered his surrender and prepared to attack it at anchor. He was expected. 5,000 of his men were killed, 10 ships burned, and Chen Zuyi taken alive and beheaded in Nanjing.
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