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* Giles, Glossary, op.cit., p.57.
44 Downing, C. Toogood (1838). The Stranger in China, or The Fanqui's Visit to The Celestial Empire in 1836-7. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 2 vols., Vol. I, pp.9-10. A diary kept on a French ship in 1779 tells of an "outside" pilot boat from Macau, whose five occupants spoke a kind of corrupt Portuguese. Charles de Constant (1939). Recit de Trois Voyages A la Chine 1779-1793. Passages chosen and annotated by Philippe de Vargas. Published by L'Ami, Revue Mensuelle, Yenching, Peking..
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Davis, The Chinese, op.cit., (1836 edition, London, Charles Knight), Vol.II, p. 447..
Downing, The Stranger in China, op.cit., Vol.I, p.10.
* Ibid., Vol. I, p.27.
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Morse, International Relations, Period of Conflict, op.cit., p.74
Davis, The Chinese, op. cit., (1836 edition, London, Charles Knight), Vol.II, p. 449.
50 Ibid., Vol. II, pp.448-9.
51 Morse, International Relations, Period of Conflict, op.cit., p.74.
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China and the English (1835). New York, p.73. Written for Abbott's Fireside Series.
53 Ball, Rambles in Eastern Asia, op. cit., p.99.
54 Abbott's Fireside Series, op.cit., p.73,
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A striking instance is given in Wei Peh T'I (1981). Juan Yuan's Management of Sino-British Relations in Canton 1817-1826, The Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, (hereafter JHKBRAS), Vol. 21, pp.153-5. Pidgin English has been described succinctly as being 'a singular admixture of corrupted Portuguese, English, Hindustani, and other foreign words spoken largely in a Chinese syntax': Chang, Commissioner Lin, op.cit., pp.235-6, n47. For a recent detailed statement on Pidgin, see Selby, Anne and Stephen (1995)