LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . nearly doubled, but it fell again in1904, and still further in 1905. The total gross and net valuesof the trade of the port from 1900 to 1905, were as follows: Gross and Net Values of Trade, 1900-1905. YEAE. Gross Values. Net Values. 1900 Hk. ,036,553 Hk. ,405,172 1901 60,845,410 59,990,274 1902 80,727,943 79,744,707 1903 111,268,748 110,559,826 1904 96,,478 96,247,076 1905 92,793,830 9-2,243,650 Whantpoa or Hwangpu ^ j^ enjoys no longer the activityof f
LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . nearly doubled, but it fell again in1904, and still further in 1905. The total gross and net valuesof the trade of the port from 1900 to 1905, were as follows: Gross and Net Values of Trade, 1900-1905. YEAE. Gross Values. Net Values. 1900 Hk. ,036,553 Hk. ,405,172 1901 60,845,410 59,990,274 1902 80,727,943 79,744,707 1903 111,268,748 110,559,826 1904 96,,478 96,247,076 1905 92,793,830 9-2,243,650 Whantpoa or Hwangpu ^ j^ enjoys no longer the activityof former days, especially since Canton has been open to dockyards have been purchased by the Chinese Government. Macao ^ igjp or Ngaomèn ^ P^. — A Portuguese colonysituated at the Southern extremity of the Si-kiang ^ ^ delta. 288 SECTION IV. THE COAST-LINE OF CHINA. The Portuguese first settled there in 1557, and during severalcenturies, especially during the eighteenth, it was the greattrading centre between China and the West. Since the cessionof Hongkong to Great Britain, its trade has constantly MACAO or NGAOMÉN g| f^ with its dependencies of Taipa and Colowan. It was held at a rental to the Emperor of China of a year till 1848, when Governor Ferreira do Amaralrefused to pay any longer, and forcibly drove out the ChineseCustom-house, and with it the last vestige of Chinese was treacherously murdered in August, 1849, near thebarrier of Porta do Cerco, and his head taken to Canton. Thesovereignty of Portugal over the peninsula was ofïîcially recog-nised l)y China in the treaty signed with Portugal in 1887. Macao has an area of 11 square miles, and with its depen-dencies, a population of 78,000 inhabitants, of whom 5,000 arePortuguese and 30,000 Chinese in the city alone. Macao is88 miles distant from Canton and 40 from Hongkong. It has THE COAST OF KWANGTUNG. 289 several churches and possesses the Grotto of Oamoens, thece
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