The early description of Malacca

It is important to know how Malacca looks like before this project can start. There are several earliest recorded history that is available now written by travelers from east and west.

I shall start by a travel log by Ma Huan.

He was a Muslim voyager and translator who accompanied Admiral Zheng He on three of his seven expeditions to the Western Oceans. The title of the log is

"Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan: ’- The Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores’ (1433) "

The dates this log was written is 1433. It is the most earliest recorded history of how Malacca looks like during those time.