Annam 27/321/8309-8316. “An Account of Annam,” translated by John D. Phan, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Japan 27/322/8341-8358. Ryusaku TSUNODA, translator and commentator; and L. Carrington Goodrich, editor, Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories: Later Han Through Ming Dynasties (South Pasadena: P.D. and Iona Perkins, 1951; re-issued by same publishers 1968). Google books shows a 2003 edition by something called Textbook Publishers, with an ISBN: 0758167458. Every reasonable effort has been made to locate the current copyright holder of this book. If the current copyright holder is not happy about this posting, we will take it down. Posted here are pp. 106-159 only, translation, with notes at the back.
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Champa 28/324/8393, translated by Geoffrey Wade at www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps03_003.pdf .
Borneo 28/325-8411-15, translated by Johannes L. Kurz, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Malacca 28/325/8416-9. Translated by W. P. Groeneveldt, as “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca. Compiled from Chinese Sources,” 1876.
Malacca and the Malay Peninsula 28/325/8419 snippet
Afterwards, the Franks [i.e. the Portuguese, known to the Chinese as Fo-lang-ji] gaining strength, they came with soldiers and conquered the country [Melaka]; the king Sultan Mamat [Mahmud] ran away and sent envoys to inform [the imperial government] of this disaster. At that time the Emperor Shih-tsung [Shi-zong, i.e. Jiajing] sat on the throne; he issued a decree upbraiding the Franks, told them to go back to their own country and ordered the kings of Siam and other countries to assist their neighbour in his need; none of these obeyed, however, and so the kingdom of Melaka was destroyed. At the time, the Franks also sent envoys to the court to bring tribute and ask for investiture. When they arrived at Canton the Governor imprisoned the envoys, as their country had not been reckoned before among the tributary kingdoms, and asked orders from the Government. The Emperor ordered to give them the price of the goods they had brought and to send them away.
Cheah Boon Kheng, “Ming China’s Support for Sultan Mahmud of Melaka and Its Hostility towards the Portuguese after the Fall of Melaka in 1511,” Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 85.2 (2012), #303:54-78. Extract from a translation by W. P. Groeneveldt called “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca. Compiled from Chinese Sources,” 1876, p. 133-4, kept in the Yale University Library. Used by kind permission of Dr. Cheah Boon Kheng. Minor revisions.