junks

Ships teetered on the waters below, dragon-masted longships, bulky cogs, leaky skiffs, junks from the south and holks from the north, all formed around the cliffs in an immense semicircle.

A CHILD IS BORN • by Kristen Lee Knapp 2010

Before the Spanish came, it was an important fishing village said to have hosted junks from the Orient.

Walking the walk, talking the talk - Atlantis in Mexico part 2 2007

Before the Spanish came, it was an important fishing village said to have hosted junks from the Orient.

Walking the walk, talking the talk - Atlantis in Mexico part 2 2007

In April 1641, it allowed a Chinese merchant named Peco to send two junks from the Bay of Tayouan to Danshui to buy sulfur.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

There was an enormous amount of almost entirely undocumented coastal and ocean-going shipping in Chinese junks plying the seas between China, Southeast Asia, and even North America.

The Ningpo: A Chinese Ocean-going Junk « Far Outliers 2004

There was an enormous amount of almost entirely undocumented coastal and ocean-going shipping in Chinese junks plying the seas between China, Southeast Asia, and even North America.

2004 January 07 « Far Outliers 2004

China; 25,000 piculs annually is the amount returned, but there is an immense quantity imported in Chinese junks from Hainan, of which there is no account kept.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

In order to facilitate the smuggling, the British had permitted certain Chinese junks to fly the British flag.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

Celestial Empire in Chinese junks, saw a little box containing a magnetized needle, called Ting-nan-Tchen, or "needle which points to the south."

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

Thousands of Chinese vessels, called junks, are fitted out every year for these fisheries.

Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various