Namoa

English Etymology Borrowed from en nan-tws - 南澳 Nâm-ò/nam5 o3. Pronunciation näm′ō′Namao 1279 3 Namao (näm′ō′), Mandarin Nanao (nän′ou′),Often mistakenly spelled Namoa. Proper noun en dated en Nan'ao: the Teochew-derived name. en https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RqpPAAAAcAAJ&dq=NAmoa&source=gbs_navlinks_s 1847 Robert Fortune Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc. 2nd John Murray, Albemarle Street 23–24 Leaving Namoa, and sailing up the coast towards Amoy, the stranger is continually struck with the barren rocky nature of the coast, and in some parts has a view of hills of sand, the particles of which, when a hurricane blows, mix with the wind, and whiten the ropes of vessels and render it most unpleasant to be in the vicinity. en https://archive.org/details/fareasternintern0000unse/mode 1931 Hosea Ballou Morse; Harley Farnsworth MacNair Far Eastern International Relations Houghton Mifflin Company 97 https://archive.org/details/fareasternintern0000unse/page/96/mode/ In the latter year, the viceroy issued a proclamation denouncing opium smoking, and ordering the rigorous enforcement of the laws; from now on ships began to trade in opium along the coast to the east and north. Soon storeships were stationed at Namoa, on the border between Kwangtung and Fukien, and elsewhere farther north, to serve as depots of supplies for the brigs and schooners which formed the connecting link with Lintin. en 1958 w:Arthur Waley The Opium War through Chinese Eyes https://archive.org/details/opiumwarthroughc00wale/ London George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1973 0 04 951012 6 473881182 47 https://archive.org/details/opiumwarthroughc00wale/page/47/ His next report to Peking arrived on July 8th and seems to have been sent on June 13th. It concerned a fresh outbreak of smuggling at Namoa, on the northern borders of Kwangtung, and makes no reference to any general plan for stamping out the opium trade in the future. en February 28, 1968 Peking Accuses U.S. Of Intruding w:The Lincoln Star https://archive.org/details/lincoln-star-1968-02-28/ Lincoln, Nebraska 66 129 Tokyo (AP) 50710495 24 https://archive.org/details/lincoln-star-1968-02-28/page/n21/ 4 Radio Peking said one plane intruded over territorial waters east of Namoa Island and another near Yunghsing Is­land, both off the coast of the southern province of Kwangtung. en 1974 Alexander Laing Joseph J. Thorndike The American Heritage History of Seafaring America https://archive.org/details/americanheritage00lain/ New York American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc. 0-07-035847-8 74-5301 866558 261 https://archive.org/details/americanheritage00lain/page/261/ Hazards and oddities of the opium traffic appear in a report of the first confrontation with Chinese by the people of the Rose, a 150-ton clipper brigantine designed by Joe Lee of Boston to Forbes's order, and sent out in 1836 by way of the Strait of Magellan and the Sandwich Islands. She picked up 300 chests of opium, valued at $1,000 apiece, from a receiving ship below Canton and sailed three days up the coast to Namoa Island, where she encountered the barge of a Chinese commodore. The master of the Rose explained that contrary winds had driven him off course, an explanation clearly absurd in the favorable monsoon. en 1991 Simon Long Taiwan: China's Last Frontier https://archive.org/details/taiwanchinaslast00long/ New York w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-05273-1 90-43872 22114974 6 https://archive.org/details/taiwanchinaslast00long/page/6/mode/ In 1563, pirates expelled from their base on Namoa Island on the Guangdong border, took refuge on Taiwan, which was to remain an important pirate lair until the arrival of the Dutch, followed by Chinese and then Manchu forces in the seventeenth century. References Anagrams en aamno Amano Amona