No Chinese Protagonist of maritime traffic in the sentences of 南州異物志(The Annals of Southern Foreign Countries’ Rarities).

句稚國、去典遜八百里、有江口、西南向。東北行、極大崎頭、出漲海、水淺而多磁石。外徼人乘大舶、皆以鐵葉錮之、至此崎頭、礙磁石不得過。皆止句稚、貨易而還也 In Kuchi (句稚, Chin. Juzhi) state which is 800 ri(里, Chin. Li)away from Tenson(典遜, Chin. Dianxun). There is a river mouth flowing toward to S…