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EAST ASIA.
been known by the name of Zaitun, as commercially dependent on Tswanchew, in
tbe district of which it is situated. At present
the little port
of Nganhai serves as
the entrepot
of traffic between the old port
of ZaYtun and its successor.
Amoy (Hiamen, or Hiamun), now open to the trade of the West, lies on an
island apparently at one time connected with the mainland, in one of the very
Fig.
115. AMOV.
Scale 1 : 180,000.
to 64 Feet. 64 Feet and upwards.
6 Miles.
finest harbours in tho world. Tt was already the chief port in the province of
Fokien when the Portuguese arrived here in the beginning of the sixteenth century.
It remained accessible to European shipping till the year 1730, after which it
was closed till reopened by the guns of the English in 1840. The colony of the-
" red-haired devils," which numbered three hundred souls in 1880, has been
established in the little island of Kulang-su, over half a mile from Amoy, and