Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Suppression of Piracy in the China Sea: 1849
AT all times piracy was known to be rife in the China Sea. At various periods it has assumed formidable proportions. In the sixteenth century Manilla was threatened by one piratical ?eet; in the seventeenth century Formosa was conquered from the Dutch by another. In 1808, another chief was known to have collected eight hundred armed junks and seventy thousand men. The Chinese war navy, never powerful, was helpless before these freebooters. It generally endeavoured to restore order on its seas by the payment of black mail, or by offering large bribes to the pirate chiefs, and, if possible, enlisting them in the Government service.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
