By the end of the Yuan dynasty, about the 14th century, the Chinese merchant Wang Ta-yuan wrote a book called Tao-yu chi-lueh, or A Sketch of the Islands, which included a description of T'an Ma Hsi, a Chinese community that is now Singapore.
到了元朝末年，十四世紀左右，一位中國商人汪大淵寫了一本遊歷南海群島的「島嶼記略」，其中包括了談馬錫﹘﹘現在的新加坡華人聚集區的描述。