Citations:Tay-wan

English citations of Tay-wan

• 1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IV. FO-KYEN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 88:

  The Chineſe divide the Lands they poſſeſs in Formoſa into three Hyen, or ſubordinate Govermnents which depend on the Capital of the Iſland ; each of theſe Governments has its particular Officers, who are immediately ſubject to the Governor of that Capital, and he to the Vice-Roy of the Province of Fo-kyen, whereof Tay-wan or Formoſa makes a Part.

• 1747, New General Collection of Voyages and Travels of the Most Esteemed Relations‎^[2], page 306, column 1:

  The Anchors of their Ships of War are made of this Wood, and the Emperor's Officers, who accompanies the Miſſioners in their Paſſage to the Iſland of Tay-wan, or Formoſa, pretended they were preferable to the Iron-Anchros belonging to the Chineſe Merchantmen ; but in this they muſt be miſtaken : For the Flukes can nver be ſufficiently pointed, nor ſtrong enough for taking ſure Hold ; and by making the Shanks twice as long as thoſe of Iron-Anchors, they muſt be proportionably weak, be they ever ſo large.

• 1795, W. Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, and Philosophical View of the Chinese Empire‎^[3], →OCLC, page 74:

  Beſides theſe cities and a number of forts belonging to them, this province has under its juriſdiction a celebrated port, commonly called Hia-men, or Emouy, and the iſles Pong-hu, and Tay-wan or Formoſa.

• 1810, “Preconcerted Homicide—Murder.”, in George Thomas Staunton, transl., Ta Tsing Leu Lee; Being The Fundamental Laws, and a Selection from the Supplementary Statutes, of the Penal Code of China‎^[4], →OCLC, page 561:

  7. In all caſes of piracy committed by trading veſſels belonging to the iſland of Tay-wan (Formoſa,) the offenders ſhall ſuffer death by being beheaded, immediately after conviction; and their heads ſhall be expoſed to public view at the port of Hia-men (Emouy,) together with a written account of their crimes, as a warning to others.

• 1869 February, “Formosa: The Beautiful but Neglected Island”, in The New Monthly Magazine‎^[5], volume CXLIV, page 226:

  Tay-wan, as the Chinese call it, is to the Chinese and Japanese Seas what Malta is to the Mediterranean. Hainan is a commanding point, in as far as southern Shin-wah or China and Tun-kwin or Tonquin are concerned; but Formosa, as the prolongation of Borneo and the Philippine Islands to Japan, is in a far more commanding position.