Canton River

British  

/ kænˈtɒn /

noun

1. another name for the Zhu Jiang

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Example Sentences

Macao, small island at the mouth of the Canton River, 100 m.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Then would masts surmount spires; and all mankind, like the Chinese boatmen in Canton River, live in flotillas and fleets, and find their food in the sea.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

Thomas T. Forbes, for example, shipped before the mast at the age of thirteen; was commander of the "Levant" at twenty; and was lost in the Canton River before he was thirty.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

Almost at the same time as the attack on Chusan, hostilities were recommenced against the Chinese on the Canton River, in consequence of the carrying off of a British subject, Mr. Vincent Stanton, from Macao.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles

By them she was fitted out and employed on the Canton River during the disturbances between the imperialists and the insurgents.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles