Canton River
Britishnoun
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Hong Kong On the Canton River Boat Up and down, up and down, paces the sentry.
From Profiles from China by Tietjens, Eunice
North Latitude 23 1/2, Longitude East 113; the time March of this same year; the wind southerly; the port Whampoa in the Canton River.
From Great Sea Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
Resigning his appointment with the legation, Kane established himself as a physician at Whampoa, on the Canton River, where illness shortly broke up his professional practice.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
The Chinese capture of an English subject, Vincent Stanton, was followed by a British expedition into the Canton River.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
In 1511, Raphael Perestralo sailed from Malacca to China, and in 1517 the Portuguese officer, Don Fernand Perez D'Andrade, arrived in the Canton River with a squadron, and was favorably received by the mandarins.
From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
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