History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea From 1807 1810
History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea From 1807 1810
Yung Lun Yan
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You meet on these mountains with bamboo from seventy to eighty feet in circumference. Kwang tung tsuen too, p. 5v. Chaou is Chaou choivfoo, from Pekin 8, 540 and easterly from Canton 1, 740 le ; eleven towns of the third rank belong to it. The whole district pays 65, 593 leang, or tael. A tael is equal to 5*798 decimal, troy weight ; and in the East-India Company's ac- counts the tael of silver is reckoned at six shillings and eight- pence sterling. Foo is the Chinese name for the first class o...f towns ; Chow for the second, Heen for the third. I sometimes have translated Chov) bv district-town, and Heen by borough, or market-tovj^n. CHINKSE PIRATES. 9 K'tioig, Kin, Tan, Vac and Wan ;* and a third between these two, to Kwang and Chow.^ The • Kaou is Kaon, chowfoo, from Pekin Ty'JG'J, north-west from Can- ton 930 le ; the district, and five towns of the third class, payinj^ together 62, 566 leang, are dependent on the district-metropolis. Lee7i is Lecn choivfoo, from Pekin 9, 0G5, from Canton 1, 515 le ; the district and two towns, paying together 1, 681 leang, are de- pendent on the district-metropolis.
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