China, During the War and Since the Peace, Volumen2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 |
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American Amoy anchor appeared authorities Berkeley boats British subjects CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Canton Canton province Canton river capital Captain chief China Chinese government Chinese minister Christian Chusan civil coast Cochin-China commanding commerce commissioners consequence consul Corea course Daïri despatch Dutch duty Edward Belcher emperor empire English established European favour five ports Foochow Foochow-foo force foreign Formosa Foshan governor Gutzlaff harbour Hongkong important intercourse island Japan Japanese Jedo junks Keying Koolangsoo Loo-choo Lord Palmerston Macao magistrate Majesty's Manchow mandarins ment merchants miles military mission missionaries Nangasaki Nanking nations natives necessary negociation Ningpo object observed occasion officers opium parties peace Peking persons port of trade Portuguese possession present principal Protestant proved provinces punished received residence river Romanists seemed sent Shanghae ships shore Sir John Davis steamer stipulations Tahungah Tartar Tinghae tion town treaty treaty of Nanking troops UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vessels whole
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Página 264 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Página 272 - All Japanese who return from abroad shall be put to death. " Whoever discovers a priest shall have a reward of...
Página 231 - No matter whether they worship images or do not worship images, there are no prohibitions against them, if, when practising their creed, they act well.
Página 273 - The whole race of the Portuguese, with their mothers, nurses, and whatever belongs to them, shall be banished to Macao.
Página 87 - It is agreed that Her Britannic Majesty's chief high officer in China shall correspond with the Chinese high officers, both at the capital and in the provinces, under the term, "communication...
Página 270 - So great was the covetousness of the Dutch, and so strong the alluring power of the Japanese gold, that rather than quit the prospect of a trade (indeed most advantageous) they willingly underwent an almost perpetual imprisonment, for such in fact is our residence at Desima, and chose to suffer many...
Página 254 - The kings found in him a man full of complaisance ; the pagans a minister who accommodated himself to their superstitions ; the mandarins a polite courtier skilled in all the trickery of courts ; and the devil a faithful servant, who, far from destroying, established his reign among the heathen, and even extended it to the Christians.
Página 98 - In 1830, the whole importation of woollens at that place amounted to 154,552 yards; in 1839, to 1,297,230; and in 1840, it rose to 1,328,912. These were two years of a more or less suspended trade with England, but the quantity is still very large. Tea, the principal export, has increased in a similar manner. In. 1838, there were brought 43,070 boxes, each. of 100 Ibs., besides 71,940 pieces of brick tea ; in 1839, boxes 47,950, and 60,430 pieces.
Página 265 - It is not above a hundred years,' he says, ' since the Japanese first ventured thither. It was thought, before that time, to be wholly inaccessible, and by reason of the thick smoke which was observed continually to arise from it, and of the several spectres, and other frightful uncommon apparitions, people fancied to see there chiefly in the night, it was believed to be a dwellingplace of devils, till at last a resolute and courageous man offered himself, and obtained leave, accordingly, to go and...
Página 185 - By a long established rule of the government, the possession of fire-arms had always, previous to the war with England, been denied to the common people; and even the sale of iron had at one time been restricted, lest it might be converted to other uses than those of agriculture. But during the war there had been such a liberal distribution of arms to persons of all descriptions, that they remained in the possession of many who were soon ready to make bad use of them.