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11 A lorcha is a specialized fighting craft from Macau that combined a Western-style hull (for speed and maneuverability) with Chinese batten sails and rigging (for easier sail-handling and disguise).
12 Charles F. Neumann, History of the Pirates (š), who infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810, (London, John Murray, 1831) P. 58.
13 J. R. Morrison, A Chinese Commercial Guide (Canton, Office of the Chinese Repository, 1848) pp. 70-71.
14 The Last Year in China to the Peace of Nanking as sketched in Letters to his Friends by a Field Officer actively employed in that Country (2nd edition, revised, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1843) pp. 51-52.
15 There is, in addition, the possibility that the fort had a temporary garrison in 1834 see the imperial directive given respecting defence and patrolling at Lantau and Macao quoted by J. L. Cranmer-Byng in his brief note "An old fort at Tung Chung on Lantao Island” in J.H.K.B.R.A.S. Vol 3 (1963) pp. 144-145.
16 Hong Kong Government. New Territories Administration. Block Crown Lease Demarcation Districts 322 and 327, Shek Sun village, Lantau Island.
BIBLIOGRAPHY CITED
J. J. L. Duyvendak, "Sailing directions of Chinese voyages", T'oung Pao vol. 34 (1938), pp. 230-237,
"The true dates of the Chinese maritime expeditions in the early fifteenth century", T'oung Pao vol. 34 (1938), pp. 341-412.
Luis B. Gomes, Monografia de Macau, Macau, 1951.
Hongkong Government. A Gazetteer of Place Names in Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories, Hongkong, 1960.
Lo Hsing-lin, Hongkong and its External Communications before 1842. Hongkong, 1963.
J. R. Morrison, A Chinese Commercial Guide, Canton, 1848.
Charles F. Neumann, The History of the Pirates who infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810, translated from the Chinese original, London, 1831.
Ch'ing dynasty work:
Chinese Sources
Mo Pei Chi (AA) A.D. 1621
The provincial Gazetteer of Kwangtung:
Kwong Tung Tung Chi (♬✯ ih sk) 1864 edition
The District Gazetteers for the following:
San On Yuen Chi (%) 1819 edition
Tung Kwun Yuen Chi ✯✯✯) 1797 edition
Heung Shan Yuen Chi (3) 1827 edition
O Mun Kei Leuk (39 1932) 1800 edition
FAN LAU AND ITS FORT
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11 A lorcha is a specialized fighting craft from Macau that combined a Western-style hull (for speed and maneuverability) with Chinese batten sails and rigging (for casier sail-handling and disguise).
12 Charles F. Neumann, History of the Pirates (š), who infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810, (London, John Murray, 1831) P. 58.
13 J. R. Morrison, A Chinese Commercial Guide (Canton, Office of the Chinese Repository, 1848) pp. 70-71.
14 The Last Year in China to the Peace of Nanking as sketched in Letters to his Friends by a Field Officer actively employed in that Country (2nd edition, revised, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1843) pp. 51-52.
15 There is, in addition, the possibility that the fort had a temporary garrison in 1834 see the imperial directive given respecting defence and patrolling at Lantau and Macao quoted by J. L. Cranmer-Byng in his brief note "An old fort at Tung Chung on Lantao Island” in J.H.K.B.R.A.S. Vol 3 (1963) pp. 144-145.
16 Hong Kong Government. New Territories Administration. Block Crown Lease Demarcation Districts 322 and 327, Shek Sun village, Lantau Island.
BIBLIOGRAPHY CITED
J. J. L. Duyvendak, "Sailing directions of Chinese voyages", T'oung Pao vol. 34 (1938), pp. 230-237,
"The true dates of the Chinese maritime expeditions in the early fifteenth century", Toung Pao vol. 34 (1938), pp. 341-412.
Luis B. Gomes, Monografia de Macau, Macau, 1951.
Hongkong Government. A Gazetteer of Place Names in Hongkong. Kowloon, and the New Territories, Hongkong, 1960.
Lo Hsing-lin, Hongkong and its External Communications before 1842. Hongkong, 1963.
J. R. Morrison, A Chinese Commercial Guide, Canton, 1848.
Charles F. Neumann, The History of the Pirates who infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810, translated from the Chinese original, London, 1831.
Ch'ing dynasty work:
Chinese Sources
Mo Pei Chi (AA) A. D. 1621
The provincial Gazetteer of Kwangtung:
Kwong Tung Tung Chi (♬ ✯ ih sk) 1864 edition
The District Gazetteers for the following:
San On Yuen Chi (%) 1819 edition
Tung Kwun Yuen Chi✯✯ ✯) 1797 edition Heung Shan Yuen Chi (3) 1827 edition O Mun Kei Leuk (39 1932) 1800 edition
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