Diary of a Journey Overland, Through the Maritime Provinces of China from Manchao, on the South Coast of Hainan, to Canton in the Years 1819 and 1820Sir R. Phillips, 1822 - 116 من الصفحات |
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... Cochin - China , and for that reason I beg leave to shew merely what I consider most directly worthy of attention regarding the Hainanese and Chinese . J. R. , Supercargo . 1 TIBKYKA MBTIC MEA AOBK JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM.
... Cochin - China , and for that reason I beg leave to shew merely what I consider most directly worthy of attention regarding the Hainanese and Chinese . J. R. , Supercargo . 1 TIBKYKA MBTIC MEA AOBK JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM.
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... leaving the beach , we delivered over our tent and the ship to our friendly visitants , who had hitherto refrained from going on - board ; but now , as it were from lawful possession , went off by thousands , and began to cut her up in ...
... leaving the beach , we delivered over our tent and the ship to our friendly visitants , who had hitherto refrained from going on - board ; but now , as it were from lawful possession , went off by thousands , and began to cut her up in ...
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... leaving the boats were surrounded by numbers of the inhabitants , who stared and gazed at us with astonishment and surprise . The country here assumed a very different aspect , being in a high state of cultivation , and ap- peared very ...
... leaving the boats were surrounded by numbers of the inhabitants , who stared and gazed at us with astonishment and surprise . The country here assumed a very different aspect , being in a high state of cultivation , and ap- peared very ...
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... leave the country on any account whatever , so that this person must have withdrawn himself without the knowledge of the authorities where he embarked . Even the merchants of that country , who are in the habit of trading to Batavia ...
... leave the country on any account whatever , so that this person must have withdrawn himself without the knowledge of the authorities where he embarked . Even the merchants of that country , who are in the habit of trading to Batavia ...
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... leave Man - chow in five days more . 27th . - Northerly winds and clear pleasant weather through- out . We passed this day in examining the miaos and trium- phal arches before mentioned : these are of a semicircular form , supported by ...
... leave Man - chow in five days more . 27th . - Northerly winds and clear pleasant weather through- out . We passed this day in examining the miaos and trium- phal arches before mentioned : these are of a semicircular form , supported by ...
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appeared bamboo beautiful blocks boats breezes called Canton character China Chinese character Chinese language Chinese method circumstance clear pleasant weather coast Cochin-China conducted Confucius considerable continued our journey course cultivated curious day we passed day-light distance Doorga eastward emperor empire European feet high five four governor ground guns Hainan Hainanese half-past handsome Hindoo hitherto houses Howi-how Hush-e-on India informed inhabitants joss-house junks kind land language large towns Lascars latter Macao Malacca Man-chow mandarines manner miao miles morning mountains moveable types N. E. and clear nations natives night obliged observed on-board Opium ourselves person pirates pleasant weather throughout population printing received remarkable respect rice river roads samsu sapekas seems sent ship side situation sort Spanish dollars supposed sweet potatoes tion Tonquin trade various vessel viceroy villages VOYAGES and TRAVELS walls weather as yesterday whilst Yin and YANG
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الصفحة 77 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
الصفحة 96 - Portugueze ships arrive at Macao, it is incumbent to search and examine each ship. And let the viceroy widely publish a proclamation, stating, that Opium, being an article produced abroad, and from thence flowing into China: and as every region has its usages and climate proper for itself, and differing from others, the celestial empire does not forbid you people to make and eat Opium, and diffuse the custom in your native place.
الصفحة 32 - Seldom is there a houshold without its internal divisions, and lasting enmities, most commonly too on the score of interest. The women partake of this spirit of discord. Held in slavish subjection by the men, they rise in furious passions against each other, which vent themselves in such loud, virulent...
الصفحة 97 - ... officer from the custom-house, and to the armed police at Whampoa, to be very strict in searching ; and further confidential soldiers are sent in all directions to search and seize. " Besides these precautions, the Hong merchants are required to promulgate to all foreign factory chiefs, resident at Macao or Canton, our commands to them to yield implicit obedience to former imperial edicts, which disallow the clandestine introduction of opium, and which require the sources from which it comes...
الصفحة 96 - Majesty's command, and frequent proclamations have been issued against it, which are on record. But the passages on the coast of Canton being very numerous, Macao being the resort of foreigners, and Whampoa being the anchorage for foreign ships, should be more strictly watched and searched. "It is found on record, that during the...
الصفحة 106 - Yuen-mun-paa (ie A report from the outer gate of the palace,) containing about 500 words, or monosyllables, is printed .with these wooden types, but in so clumsy a manner as to be scarcely legible . , At Macao, in the Missionary department of the College of St. Joseph, I have seen several large cases full of this description of type, with which they print such Roman Catholic books as are wanted for the Missions. In the .Anglo- Chinese College Library at Malacca, there is a Life of the Blessed Virgin...
الصفحة 38 - I have been able to learn, are iiijf.ir, betel-nut, cocoa-nuts, cocoa-nut oil, salt, and tanned hides: the imports consist of a great variety of China articles, cotton, furs, English broadcloth, flints, and opium ; all which they receive by way of China. The junks take in their cargoes and sail hence about the month of May or June for the coast, and the trading-vessels from China arrive here with the last of the northeast monsoon, and return with the first of the southwest monsoon. " In this city,...
الصفحة 115 - To exalt and aggrandi/ privileged orders of men, and keep the people in a low, degrading servitude, ever children in understanding, and the vassals of arbitrary power, seems the uniform tendency of every native government on this side of India, without the exception of one. Their constitutions seem framed on this principle, and the spirit of their laws tends to this end. In as far as the theory of their governments may be investigated and reduced to general philosophical principles, and the annual...
الصفحة 100 - Most of the forms of mythology which make any figure in the page of history, now exist in China, except that their indecent parts, and their direct tendency to injure human life, have been cut off.
الصفحة 104 - ... which sets every thing masculine in so exalted, and every thing feminine in so inferior, a light, was doubtless greatly increased thereby. Their general belief in the metempsychosis, and in the inevitable decisions of a numerical fate, prevents the cordial exercise of benevolence and beneficence. Their cold-hearted philosophy, indeed, teaches and applauds the practice of alms-deeds. Charity falls clear as the dew-drop from the lips and pens of their sages, but often freezes ere it reach the ground....