junks

• “Ships teetered on the waters below, dragon-masted longships, bulky cogs, leaky skiffs, junks from the south and holks from the north, all formed around the cliffs in an immense semicircle.”

  A CHILD IS BORN • by Kristen Lee Knapp

• “Before the Spanish came, it was an important fishing village said to have hosted junks from the Orient.”

  Walking the walk, talking the talk - Atlantis in Mexico part 2

• “In April 1641, it allowed a Chinese merchant named Peco to send two junks from the Bay of Tayouan to Danshui to buy sulfur.”

  How Taiwan Became Chinese

• “There was an enormous amount of almost entirely undocumented coastal and ocean-going shipping in Chinese junks plying the seas between China, Southeast Asia, and even North America.”

  The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers

• “China; 25,000 piculs annually is the amount returned, but there is an immense quantity imported in Chinese junks from Hainan, of which there is no account kept.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “In order to facilitate the smuggling, the British had permitted certain Chinese junks to fly the British flag.”

  A History of China

• “Celestial Empire in Chinese junks, saw a little box containing a magnetized needle, called Ting-nan-Tchen, or "needle which points to the south.”

  Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology

• “Thousands of Chinese vessels, called junks, are fitted out every year for these fisheries.”

  Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly

• “Piracy was rampant in the China seas during this period, and so bold and ferocious were the Chinese desperadoes that their junks were a great terror to merchant vessels, and seriously interfered with commerce.”

  The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)

• “There is one thing of which I cannot yet conceive the issue, and that is the robbing and plundering the Chinese junks, which is daily done by the”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

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