CHENG Ho belongs to everybody. By word of mouth, stories about this man were passed on for generations until they became legend. Now we know what followed later: Cheng Ho turned into a local figure, a character in the local setting. Several cities with no accounts of his stopovers have inherited their own tales about him. Cheng Ho or Zheng He is also called Dampu/Dampo Awang, meaning Dang or Sang Puhawang, whichaccording to Cheng Ho historian Mira