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The Great Voyages or Zheng He
Shanghai United International School Wanyuan Campus, Wang, Matt - 9
Chapter 1
Once upon a time, there was a person named Zheng He. He was a famous navigator. He was a
determined, open minded, smart because he had a lot of knowledge about the sea and everyone trusted him.
Yong Le was the emperor of Ming dynasty and who made maritime silk road. Yong Le let him to explore
the sea. First, Zheng He was afraid. With people’s encouragement, he wanted to explore the sea.
Chapter 2
At that day, Zheng He shouted “Bye-bye!’ to his country. He went into his boat with his mighty,
domineering fleet. His fleet has 240 boats. Soldiers, oil supplier, food supplier and sailors included in the
fleet. Zheng He was on the middle boat in the fleet. Half month pasted, suddenly, an arrow shot on a
soldier’s boat.
“My boat got a shot!” Pay attention to the pirates!” the soldier shouted. Just then, Zheng He saw the
pirates are attacking his fleet.
“Fire the pirates!” Zheng He commanded. Then, many arrows shot out, all the pirates got a shoot and
they died. Zheng He’s fleet was safe again.
Chapter 3
They came to a mysterious country. It was eleven o’clock at night, so everyone was sleeping. They didn’t
tell anyone they came here. They slept on the grass near the boat. Next morning, some noise woke them
up. Zheng He opened his eyes and he saw a crowd around them. “What’s going on?”
“Stand straight!”
“Pay attention!” Then, Zheng He saw the king.
“Where are you from?”
“We are from China. We are the merchants.”
“Go away! You silly merchants, we don’t welcome you.” The soldiers from China got really annoyed,
they began to kill people!
“No!” said Zheng He, “If we have a war, we will have no food or boat, maybe no life! So, don’t get into
trouble.” Then, they run away fast and got into the boat. They drove the boat quickly. They escaped from
the country.
Chapter 4
Soon, they came to a country, Tai Wan. Really loved goods from China, silk, porcelain, bronze and
some sculpture. They used jewelry to trade. Day by day, Zheng He and his fleet lived hard and happily after.
Bad things happened and good things happened. He and his tremendous, durable and firm fleet sailed on the
maritime silk road. They went through the important trading posts. Muzina, Mombasa, Alexandria,
Constantinople and Rome. They had been across the Indian Ocean, Arabian sea, Red sea and he
Mediterranean Ocean. And they arrived at the terminal -Rome.
“Hooray” They shouted, “We have arrived the terminal! Let’s go trade for five days.”
After five days, they need to go back to home. So they got on the ship and back to China. They
reported the great adventure to Yong Le.