Thread by @Tanade23

Trade missions from what is now modern day Somalia to the Song dynasty
(995-1081)

"In February of the first year of Zhidao 995, Puaduli came to pay tribute with gifts. Later, in the leap month of the second year of Xianping 999, another Zeila merchant ship arrived in Guangzhou

offering four ivory plants from Puat Tili, two hundred catties of incense, and a glass vase each of thousand-year-old dates, white sugar, and grapes. Forty bottles of rose water were given as a gift to Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty when he ascended the throne"

"Zeila officially sent envoys in the sixth year of Xianping 1003.
Song Huiyao records in June of this year:
"The king Asu sent envoys such as Boluoqin and Samoni. Come and pay tribute. It was the Chengtian Festival of the same year, and his envoys, including Pu Duan and Samoni

were all present in the pavilion. They were given fur coats, and a banquet was prepared." The Samadhi here is the transliteration of Somalia, and his envoys received a grand reception in the Song Dynasty."

"In the fourth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1011), there was another captain Julan from the Samalan Kingdom(Somali) and Captain Suhar from Oman, the captain of Mogadishu and the Egyptian envoy Dumiat came together landed in Guangzhou, and went to Kaifeng to pay their respects"

Zeila is also translated as Laytan. In the reign of Shenzong, in the year 1071, the envoy of Laytan Kingdom came to Guangzhou for the first time. In 1081, he was sent to China again and stayed in Guangzhou. After staying for more than a year, he arrived in the capital of Kaifeng

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