hoqua

Updated: May 22, 2025

"Hoqua, madam," said Sky-High, bowing to his mistress, "was the great merchant mandarin of Canton in the time of the opening of that port to all countries." How did a Chinese servant know anything of Hoqua? This was the question that puzzled Mr. Van Buren. "Sky-High, how many people have you in your country?" he asked. "It is said four hundred million."

Hezekiah Butterworth - Little Sky-High : Or, The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang

"The Mandarin of Milton!" said the glittering little fellow, bending. "My ancestors have heard of the mandarins of Boston and Milton, even in the days of Hoqua." "Hoqua?" Mr. Van Buren looked at the boy with interest, "You know of Hoqua?" "Who is Hoqua?" asked Mrs. Van Buren. Mr. Van Buren turned to her, "I will tell you later."

Hezekiah Butterworth - Little Sky-High : Or, The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang

Van Buren's father in the days of the China trade and of the primitive mandarin merchant, Hoqua. Mr. Van Buren, a tea-merchant of Boston, received his goods through merchant vessels, and not through his own ships as his father had done. The next morning Mrs. Van Buren went down early into her kitchen to assign Sky-High his work.

Hezekiah Butterworth - Little Sky-High : Or, The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang