. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. pted from the general order, probably because the governmentwas indifferent about the safety of a foreign colony, particularly as thecountry beyond was defended by the barrier-wall that confined the Portu-guese within certain limits. A great number of villages near the coast were / THE MANTCHOW DYNASTY—KANG-HY: 1662-1722. 95 entirely destroyed, and thousands of Aimilies who had lived by fishing werereduced to great distress by being . lii:;ed to remove from the vicinity of thesea. The fis
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. pted from the general order, probably because the governmentwas indifferent about the safety of a foreign colony, particularly as thecountry beyond was defended by the barrier-wall that confined the Portu-guese within certain limits. A great number of villages near the coast were / THE MANTCHOW DYNASTY—KANG-HY: 1662-1722. 95 entirely destroyed, and thousands of Aimilies who had lived by fishing werereduced to great distress by being . lii:;ed to remove from the vicinity of thesea. The fishermen, !io>vover, comn .^d their boats into smaller ones, inwhich, with the f their f • ies, they could continue their occu- pation in more shalK .rs. i ,h h f these boats was fiirnished with a peculiar and inirenioi _i ...Ivam ?: it c )nsisted of a net suspended at theend of a bamboo pole, the latter p<j ? ing from the boat somewhat like abowsprit, was fixed on a |)i\ (,t by v^iiich it was moveable, and was alsoattached by means of to a balance-board. The fishe rj^ .n? he. Mode of Fishing in China. wished to raise his net out of, or sink it into the water, had only to walkeither up or down the balance-board. This mode of fishing is still prac-tised in many parts of the island of Hong-Kong and other places; but thenets in use are often of a large size, and are raised out of the water bymeans of ropes attached to wheels fixed on the shores. The expulsion ofthe inhabitants from the seacoast produced the desired effect; for the For-mosan chief, whose principal resources had been derived from plunderingthe maritime towns and villages, found his power decline wdth his meansof acquiring wealth; and although he contrived, with some difficulty, tosupport his authority till his death, his son, about twenty years after theaccession of Kang-hy, gave up his island in consideration of a title and apen^i(.n for life. Formosa was thus united to the Chinese empire, and
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