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Deveria, G. 1880. Histoire des relations de la Chine avec l’Annam – Vietnam du XVI au XIXe siecle. Paris, Ernest Leroux. pp. i-x, 1-102.

Histoire des relations de la Chine avec l’Annam – Vietnam du XVI au XIXe siecle

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In 1790, in the 55th year of Kieng-Long, a man called Nguyen-quang-binh (Nguyen-hue), the new King of Annam, went to the court of China to express his wish of a long life for the emperor. Among the gifts taken at the time, there are recorded: the horn of the rhinoceros. The products of Annam, according to the Ngan-nau-t'ou-chouo include: rhinoceros, and rhinoceros of Malaysia, black hide, 3000 livres heavy, his hide can be used to make shields.

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