Additionally, the huge size of Chinese ships of that era is referred to in contemporary Arabic and European accounts, as well as in Portuguese documents of the 16th century.
另外，還有一些阿拉伯及歐洲專著，皆提及當時中國船隻的巨大宏偉。十六世紀葡萄牙文獻資料中，也發現類似記載。