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"