Pescadore

English Noun en Pescadores. en https://archive.org/details/voyageroundworld00lapr/ 1798 A Voyage Round the World : Which was Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by M. De la Peyrouse Edinburgh 131–132 https://archive.org/details/voyageroundworld00lapr/page/131/ Standing from the shore, with topsails and courses close reefed, M. de Peyrouse hoped, that he might double the PESCADORE ISLES, by keeping the ship's head to the N. W., before a N. N. E. wind. en 1867 Wm. Fred. Mayers; N. B. Dennys; Chas. King The Treaty Ports of China and Japan London Trübner and Co. 244 https://books.google.com/books?id=zH22DuWBGJoC In 1624, the Dutch established themselves on Fischer's I., one of the Pescadore group, in order to control the coast trade of Fuhkien province. en 1970 40 Years of Conflict: 1904-1945 https://archive.org/details/40yearsofconflic0000unse/ w:Marshall Cavendish 046200550X 30294906 6–7 https://archive.org/details/40yearsofconflic0000unse/page/7/ China sued for peace, and under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, signed in April 1895, Port Arthur and the part of the Liaotung Peninsula on which it stood were ceded to Japan, as were Formosa and the Pescadore Islands, situated between Formosa and China.