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Updated: May 16, 2025
Tso-cheu Tai-yen-fou Pin-yang-fou The Yellow River Signan-fou Szu-tchouan Ching-tu-fou Thibet Li-kiang-fou Carajan Yung-tchang Mien Bengal Annam Tai-ping Cintingui Sindifoo Té-cheu Tsi-nan-fou Lin-tsin-choo Lin-sing Mangi Yang-tcheu-fou Towns on the coast Quin-say or Hang-tcheou-foo Fo-kien.
He suggested a hollow globe of copper to be filled with "ethereal air or liquid fire," but he never tried to put his suggestion into practice. Father Vasson, a missionary at Canton, in a letter dated September 5, 1694, mentions a balloon that ascended on the occasion of the coronation of the Empress Fo-Kien in 1306, but he does not state where he got the information.
The island of Formosa from going on which we so narrowly escaped is destined from its position and importance, to become, at a time not long future, a place of considerable trade for both Europeans and Americans, as it is now indeed with the Chinese of the neighboring provinces of Fo-Kien and Che-Kiang on the main land.
Fogg might hope that he would be able to reach Yokohama without recording any delay in his journal; in which case, the many misadventures which had overtaken him since he left London would not seriously affect his journey. The Tankadere entered the Straits of Fo-Kien, which separate the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast, in the small hours of the night, and crossed the Tropic of Cancer.
In 1832 and 1833 he penetrated as far as the province of Fo-Kien. Gutzlaff's Travels have made us acquainted with several very important facts connected with the different Chinese dialects, and are also of great worth to other scientific points of view.
"That's a fall, and no mistake," he thought. "There must be some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about." The Nan-Shan was on her way from the southward to the treaty port of Fu-chau, with some cargo in her lower holds, and two hundred Chinese coolies returning to their village homes in the province of Fo-kien, after a few years of work in various tropical colonies.
The Tankadere entered the Straits of Fo-Kien, which separate the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast, in the small hours of the night, and crossed the Tropic of Cancer. The sea was very rough in the straits, full of eddies formed by the counter-currents, and the chopping waves broke her course, whilst it became very difficult to stand on deck.
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