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PESCADORES (i.e. fishers)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PESCADORES (i.e. fishers) a See also:group of islands (called by the See also:Japanese HOkO to or Hoko Gunto) lying 30 M. See also:west of See also:Formosa, from which they are separated by the Pescadores Channel, about the tropic of See also:Cancer. The islands number 48 (21 inhabited), have a See also:coast-See also:line of 98.67 See also:miles, a See also:total See also:area of 85.50 sq, m., and a See also:population of about 55,000, principally See also:Chinese. See also:Flat and with unproductive See also:soil, they are swept during one See also:half of the See also:year by violent N.E. winds, and also See also:lie full in the path of the numerous typhoons that See also:rush up the Strait of Formosa. Meteorological observations taken by the Japanese during a See also:period of three years show that the See also:annual See also:average number of stormy days is 237. The anchorage is at Mako (Makyu or Makun) on the See also:principal See also:island of Penghu. The See also:chief See also:industry is fishing (whence the old See also:Spanish name which has come into See also:general use) and dried See also:fish are exported.

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