The Chinese Repository

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By Elijah Coleman
Bridgman, S. W
. Williams

Published 1834
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China

Original from the University of Michigan

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Digitized Dec 27, 2006

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Changling - Page 493
No one dares to make complaint against the black foreigners, who to this day denominate Changling their benefactor. ...
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Hainan - Page 342
In the few communications we had with the people of Hainan, they were found to be civil, and ready enough to part with refreshments when the mandarins ...
more pages: 495

Peking - Page 124
The fourth and highest is also conferred once in three years; the examination for it takes place in the royal palace at Peking in the presence of the ...
more pages: 162

Singapore - Page 498
Its western coast is scarcely two days sail from Singapore, which must be the great entrepot of the trade of the Archipelago with India, ...
more pages: 286

Bangkok - Page 444
Yet it was a salutary initiation into medical service in Bangkok. While everything possible was done to ameliorate the temporal condition of our ...
more pages: 454

Keshan - Page 318
and military officers of the celestial empire have come to pay their respects, and now the general of the district waits at Keshan so, ...
more pages: 407

Manila - Page 353
Commercial affairs are decided by the consulado or chamber of commerce, composed of all the principal, and in Manila, some of the inferior merchants. ...
more pages: 405

Calcutta - Page 406
and that (as we are assured on good authority,) the essay published by archdeacon Dealtry in Calcutta waa written in China by a British merchant.
more pages: 252

Bombay - Page 545
As to the importation of rice from Bombay, it is a branch of trade of that place which we do not recollect as among the exports to China. ...
more pages: 351

Lisbon - Page 431
and pronunciations of it are so corrupted from pure Portuguese, that those speaking it are nearly unintelligible to one newly arrived from Lisbon. ...
more pages: 441

Rome - Page 458
But as it was found that the converts from these countries could not bear the climate of Rome, the establishment for them was transferred to Naples. ...
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Naples - Page 458
But as it was found that the converts from these countries could not bear the climate of Rome, the establishment for them was transferred to Naples. ...
more pages: 459

Madras - Page 158
have been much more numerous, during the last two years than before, nor are the country ships with cotton from Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras counted. ...
more pages: 406

Rangoon - Page 22
When the English had taken Rangoon, it was riot believed by the king, until he had sent a trustworthy person to ascertain the fact. ...
more pages: 560

London - Page 540
and on the sale of the teas in the United Kingdom, to repay in London the value of the dollars advanced them in China on that account. ...
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Hanyang - Page 318
the principal of which is the Han keang, which comes down from the northwest, and falls into the Yangtsze keang, near Hanyang foo, in lat. ...
more pages: 440

Mataram - Page 406
The Chinese retreat into the interior of Java, and raise to the throne a prince of the house of Mataram. The Dutch, on the 29th of November, ...
more pages: 405

Goalpara - Page 50
Gowahati, the usual residence of the commissioner, stands on the left bank, seventy miles in a straight line east from Goalpara. ...

Martaban - Page 38
province of Yunnan, whence it enters Burmah, and forms the boundary between that country and the Laos tribes, in its progress to the sea at Martaban. ...

Patna - Page 552
In order to keep the chests and their contents secure, those in Patna are covered with the hides of bullocks, and those in Benares with the skins of ...
more pages: 467

Fangshan - Page 220
and in the district of Fangshan, they frequently call up the inhabitants, break open their doors, and having satisfied them-selves with what food and ...
more pages: 218

Paris - Page 439
by degrees, Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustines, secular priests of the seminary of foreign missions at Paris, and those of the Propaganda Fide, ...
more pages: 547

Jand - Page 10
It is true that the rulers of this Jand, willfully ignorant of the character and wishes of the friends of their country, would for ever exclude them ...

Avarua - Page 43
At Avarua a very large chapel was erected, feet long, where the people formerly worshiped. But arrival they had removed to another part of the island, ...

Montanha - Page 345
Beating down the Broadway, each Macao by a short passage between two islands, t between Langpetau or Lampagau, and Montanha ve shall find ourselves a ...

Edessa - Page 449
Thomas the apostle, which had been brought from India at immense expense, was deposited in the great temple of Edessa, dedicated to him. ...

Berlin - Page 547
No, he need never have seen Vienna, or Naples, or Berlin, or Paris, but he should be a man uniting sound natural sense with keen discrimination; ...
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Chinhae - Page 332
Accordingly we did so, and on the evening of the 15th anchored outside the harbor at the northwest end of Kintang, in nine fathoms, with Chinhae fort ...

Dasmarinas - Page 403
The emperor of Japan sends a mission to the Philippines; the king of Camboja does the same, and begs the governor, Dasmarinas, to assist him against ...

Liverpool - Page 185
The river is so thronged with junks, and the mer-cantile transactions give such life and motion to the scene, as strongly to remind one of Liverpool. ...

Glasgow - Page 335
One of s from the people of Glasgow, which has been noticed iton Register and Canton Press during this month, is en of the whole. ...
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Madrid - Page 118
As well might a man who had never moved beyond the precincts of Madrid, undertake to describe the plants of France from drawings and descriptions, ...

Shanghai - Page 329
Next morning, though the storm continued unabated, we set out in the longboat with five men without an officer, to ascend the river to Shanghai:. ...

Tomsk - Page 269
ch is the next considerable country on the western inese Turkestan, is bounded on the north by the Rus- icies of Orenburg and Tomsk, and thus we ...

Yulin - Page 341
s separated from Yulin keiing, by high land, between lies broad, forming the southern extremity of Hainan ; ent part of which is in lat. ...

Kapan - Page 128
This lenn is probably derived from Ibc Malay word Kapan a vessel, Ike Fuhkccii sailors.

Patan - Page 507
Patan and Malttdu, which occupy the northern extremity of the island, are among the most valuable of its territories. ...

Nanchang - Page 125
Ellis of lord Amherst's embassy had an opportunity of seeing one of these military examinations at Nanchang foo, the capital of t Chinese Repository, ...

Pangkah - Page 234
On the 17th of July, the travelers proceeded further up the river to the Great Dayak at a village called Pangkah, where they were re-ceived into the ...

Athens - Page 53
Whilst walking here, I was strongly re minded of Paul in Athens, when he was.
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Orenburg - Page 269
ch is the next considerable country on the western inese Turkestan, is bounded on the north by the Rus- icies of Orenburg and Tomsk, ...

Vienna - Page 547
No, he need never have seen Vienna, or Naples, or Berlin, or Paris, but he should be a man uniting sound natural sense with keen discrimination; ...

Chaiya - Page 106
The prince died and Chaiya raja succeeded. 880. This year, one or two foreign expeditions were projected, but with no important results. ...

Sumbawa - Page 406
The Dutch banish the king of Tambora in Sumbawa to the cape of Good Hope. 1717. The governor of the Philippines sends a mission to Siam, to cultivate ...

New York - Page 510
Recent arri- vals from beyond sea have brought us accounts of the transactions of peace societies in Geneva, London, and New York. ...

Ducos - Page 407
Philippines, under the priest Ducos, are successful in checking the inroads of the neighboring native states. 1757. The Chinese are finally expelled ...

Oxford - Page 250
These were assem-bled in small parties at Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford. That they might proceed to the best advantage, the king suggested the ...

Ghazipur - Page 501
winds, could remain at the low spissitudes of 50 and 60 which it is frequently brought to Ghazipur towards the eason : and we must therefore conclude, ...

Manado - Page 285
The schools in the environs of Manado are numerous and increasing, so is the church also, and a new era, the day of visita-tion from on high has ...
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Honolulu - Page 478
The first number appeared on the 30th July, 1836, with the sanction of his majesty, the king of the Sandwich Islands, then absent from Honolulu, ...

Lancaster - Page 65
of is that use the language: and may we not expect that iast as important as those of Lancaster and Bell in En- n, will be effected in China? ...

Portsmouth - Page 319
Milne's ordination, they em-barked at Portsmouth ; and having touched at the Cape of Good Hope, and the Isle of France, they arrived at Macao, ...

Angers - Page 545
In the second visit of the ent, he seems to have had no means of communicating Angers sent from court. We are aware th-it the French token in ...

Islington - Page 334
first at Islington (England), and now generally adopted in the New Zealand mission schools; and old and young, free and ...

Greenwich - Page 317
120° 32' E. from Greenwich. There are extensive banks near its entrance, and the whole island of Tsungming is an alluvial deposit formed by the waters ...

Boston - Page 294
The American Temperance Society was formed in Boston, on the 10th of January 1826; of this society the honorable Marcus Morton was the first president ...

York - Page 537
in a stage coach, from London to York, is given to the public in the shape of " a tour though the midland and northern counties;" or a passage, ...

Poyang - Page 440
The captain of (he troops stationed at Poyang, having taken on suspicion a taonsze. (a priest of the Taou sect,) named Sun Punchin, brought him with ...

Changsha - Page 345
A narrow strait between it and the main land, leighborhood of the town Changsha tae, brings us out ier and deeper water. ...

Casa Branca - Page 129
Flint to ad- inted to a paper which he said was the emperor's edict for n, he was to return to England, never more to set foot in Casa Branca, ...

Hunghae - Page 349
This is the bay of Hunghae, in the district pertaining to the department Hwuychow foo. It is h. On the east side is a town, Taeshame, or Tysam- er in ...

Belgaum - Page 284
We have letters from Bombay and Belgaum to about the middle of last Aug. From one dated at the latter place, we have interesting par- ticulars ...

Saratoga, New York - Page 294
established on the principle of entire abstinence, in the United States was formed at Moreau, in the county of Saratoga, New York, July 25th, 1808. ...

Tidore - Page 448
The Dutch formerly purchas-ed much of thij article; they gave the king of Tidore 11000 rix. dollars for one mass weighing 182 Ibs., and for which the ...

Jerusalem - Page 114
Instead of saying, like Cyrus, "He is the God who is in Jerusalem," wo did not even—lo our everlasting shame be it spoken—preserve neutrality in ...

Lahore - Page 268
The death of Ruujit Singh, ruler of Lahore, is icipated, without the supposition being added, that it will approach of the British to the banks of the ...

Philadelphia - Page 514
He was ordained a minister of the gospel at New Haven, June 7th, 1832 ; and on the 29th of the same month embarked at Philadelphia, for China. ...

Samarkand - Page 268
Besides Kiinduz, the two prin- doms in the neighborhood of the Chinese possessions in r, are Bokhara, including its provinces of Samarkand and 1 Kokan ...

Balti - Page 24
or original penal code of China, to that of the Visigoths or Balti in Spain, arising out of a parallel state of civilization may be remarked. ...

Sawankhalok - Page 163
for greater security, 5 forces of Sawankhalok and Sukhotai, amounting ) Indopuri, there to make observations. ie third of the warning of the 4th moon, ...

Nagari - Page 40
will be about 68 percent.; and remarks, 'that while the acqui-sition of the Bengali or Nagari alphabet will occupy a pupil from two to three months, ...

Cambridge - Page 95
British bark Cambridge. If iiis health is restored, he expects, after visiting America, to return again to the East. JOURNAL, OF OCCURRENCES. FORMOSA. ...

Calabar - Page 11
From this place, ships steer towards Calabar, the name of a place and a kingdom on the coast, to the right hand beyond India. ...

Tokat - Page 181
At Tokat they visited the tomb of Martyn; then took a view of Erzroom, which was once a thoroughfare for the commerce between Europe and the East; ...

Chitral - Page 268
g the Chinese frontier westward from Ladakh, we find the is states of Iskardo, Gilgit, Gunji''t, Chitral, &.c. Iskardo in, said to be eight marches ...

Plymouth - Page 208
Plymouth. Hope, hope of the good things of this life and of the eternal joys of that to come, led them on and sustained them in their ...

Mayence - Page 153
iurg, and its perfection, in Mayence, to John Faust and Pe- e have been some who questioned, whether this valuable ipable of producing error and truth ...

Tepa - Page 174
But in minor matters, the residents do not interfere, leaving such affairs to the secular deputies of the high priests, called Tepa or D'lteba; ...

Coimbra - Page 488
In Portugal, from the two colleges of Coimbra and Ehora alone, I had a list of ninety persons so desirous to labor in this mission, that many of them ...

Edinburgh - Page 325
Their three sons have resided chiefly at Aberdeen; but are now, by latest accounts, studying in Edinburgh. One of them, who was named after his father ...

Bethesda - Page 425
Such inconside-rate beings may be all the days of their lives at the pool of Bethesda without any benefit to themselves, and are highly deserving of ...

Tondano - Page 285
Reidel settled at Tondano, and Mr. Schwarz at Langowan. The latter paving personally advocat-ed the cause of this mission at ...

Makung - Page 349
On the east side is a town, Taeshame, or Tysam- er in a village named Makung. The anchorage in .eshame is confined and the entrance shoal. ...

Cairo - Page 425
stature standing on tip-toe, and then jumping, falling, blowing, and puffing to put out a light placed on the summit of the highest pyramid of Cairo. ...

Cape Town - Page 27
at Cape Town. " Quite amu-sed " we were, too, to read of the " little group of infants,"— African politicians, " from four to seven years of age ...

Gibraltar - Page 154
though we have no more idea that tfe\_*- are true, than that the forts at the Pogue are in stength equal to those of Gibraltar. ...

Dublin - Page 289
in opposition to the archbishop of Dublin, who has, we think, erred egregiously, by pleading for its abolition, under the Chris-tian dispensation. ...

New Canaan, Connecticut - Page 513
He was born and early education in New Canaan, Connecticut; in 1824, fale College, and, having completed a full course, gra« high honors in I82R. ...

Jaffna - Page 517
Works in the Pali and Singalese lan-guages are expected from the Literary Society in Ceylon ; and "the American missionary socie-ty at Jaffna, ...

Fontana - Page 443
Fontana, in 1815. Our author is unable to de-termine precisely the number now belonging to the Roman Catholic missions in China. ...

Salmas - Page 181
Armenia: including a joumey through Asia Minor, into Georgia and Persia, with a visit to the Nestorian and Chal-dean Christians of Oormiah and Salmas. ...

Venice - Page 270
The Armenians (who, by the lateitaccount*from (he Armenian Literary So-ciety of Venice denominated 'Merkitaristican,' from its founder Meckitar. are ...

Basel - Page 431
MJ n Basel and GM toe Laer. Co. No. 1 Imperial hong. WS Wetmore, Joseph and Samuel Wetmore. IT), HOLLIDAY & Co. No. 5 Danish hong. J. Holliday. ...

New Haven - Page 513
Near the close of 1829, to New Haven, and there joined the theological semi- .utor in the college in 1831-32; and in April, 1832, v NO. xi, 65 ...

Gordon, OH - Page 427
Gordon, OH, &. family, am. Gray, WF br. Green, John C. am. Greig, Alexander br Lintin. Guterres, Gregorio par Lintin. Gutzlaff, Rev. C., & fam., prn ...

Konan - Page 480
Governor and Commmutcr-in-chirf, Chow Chcke, r>f Konan. Literary chancellor, lieu Nai']>oo, of Chokciing. Poochingsze, Eleanor. ...

Hirne - Page 480
Sah commissioner at Hirne ktrnn, Yn Tihyuen, of Kansuh. (Governor of the rivr.rs, Teulin. Governor of canal transport, Chou Weipeih, of Cliekuiing. I. ...

Hamburg - Page 431
GERNAERT, esquire, French. ;NN VAN BASEL, esquire, Dutch. NOW, esquire, American. [ATHESON, esquire, Danish. DEB MATUESON, esquire, Hamburg (acting).

Waimate - Page 334
a road of three miles extent across the country to Waimate and constructing several small wooden bridges over rivulets, across which the road runs, ...

Paihia - Page 333
9th, 1833, at Paihia, one of the missionary stations, of which he says; "on ascending the beach we saw an aged chief seated on the turf, wrapped up in ...