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See also:PAKHOI, or PEIHAI , a See also:city and treaty See also:port of See also:China, in the See also:west of the See also:province of Kwang-tung, situated on a See also:bay of the Gulf of Tong-See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, formed by the See also:peninsula See also:running See also:south-west from See also:Lien-chow, in 210 30'. N., 1090 So' E. Pop. about 25,000.
Dating only from about 182o--183o, and at first little better than a See also:nest of pirates, Pakhoi rapidly See also:grew into commercial import. ance, owing partly to the See also:complete freedom which it enjoyed from See also:taxation, and partly to the diversion of See also:trade produced by the T'ai-p'See also:ing See also:rebellion. The See also:establishment of a See also:Chinese See also:custom-See also:house and the opening of the ports of See also:Hanoi and Haiphong for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time threatened to injure its prospects; but, See also:foreign trade being permitted in 1876—1877, it began in 1879 to be regularly visited by foreign steamers. The Chinese See also:town stands on the peninsula and faces due See also:north. From the See also:bluff, on which all the foreign community lives, a partly cultivated See also:plain extends. Liquid See also:indigo, See also:sugar, aniseed and aniseed oil, See also:cassia-lignea and cassia oil, cuttle-See also:fish and hides are the See also:chief exports. With See also:Macao especially an extensive See also:junk trade is carried on. A large number of the inhabitants engage in fishing and fish-curing. The preparation of dried fish is a speciality of Pakhoi, the fish being exported to Hong See also:Kong.
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