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Not having visited Amoy, Foo Chow, Ning-po, Chusan, or Shang-Hae, I am unable to give any description of those places.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Ning-po is also a large and wealthy city, admirably situated for trade, and surrounded with a beautiful country.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Starting in the Chusan archipelago near Ning-po, he had already spent seven years on the way, and it would be two more before he could attain his goal, which was not to be wondered at, as with every two steps he prostrated himself full length on the ground before the little altar he carried with him.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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The island of Pootau, off Ning-po, in the Chusan Archipelago, is the great centre of Kwannon worship; the most popular of the many legends concerning her associating her with this locality, and offering an explanation of her thousand heads and hands more clumsy even than is the manner of such myths.
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These are Canton, Amoy, Fuh-Choo, Ning-po, and Shanghae: six millions of dollars paid as the value of the opium destroyed by Lin: the system of Co-Hong abolished, and three millions paid for losses by the
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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Zin is in the uttermost East, and some say that there is the Sea of Nikpa (Ning-po?), where the star Orion predominates and stormy winds prevail [174].
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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Ning-po, a city famed throughout China for its culinary perfection, with
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The Chinese never cook except on substantial principles; and it was the principle of contrast which regulated this sublime _chef-d'oeuvre_ of the Ning-po artist.
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The consultations of the Ning-po cook and his confederates had produced great results.
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I found a Chinese town called "Ning-po," which strikes me as very much like "Bing-go," and Celia found another one called "Yung-Ping," which might just as well be "Yung-Bing," the obvious name of Bingo's heir when he has one.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 Various
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