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 | | But Khalil Sultan was already dead, and Yung Lo’s letter, like that of his father 16 years earlier, took an offensively arrogant tone: Yung Lo styled himself “Lord of all the Realms of the Face of the Earth” and addressed Shah Rukh as his vassal. |
 | | Shah Rukh, for all his cosmopolitanism, was furious, and is said to have sent a rejoinder to the effect that the sooner the emperor of China converted to Islam the better it would be for all concerned. |
 | | He established with the Khwaja that, from the day they returned, they would record on the pages of their notebooks, without addition or deletion, all they witnessed—events, condition of roads, construction of towns, description of garrisons, situations of buildings, condition of kings, and so on. |
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