Namoa

Namoa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 南澳 (naam4 ou3).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nämʹōʹ

Proper noun

Namoa

1. (dated) Synonym of Nan'ao.
   • 1847, Robert Fortune, Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc.‎, 2nd edition, John Murray, Albemarle Street, page 23-24:

     Leaving Namoa, and sailing up the coast towards Amoy, the stranger is continually struck with the barren rocky nature of the coast, and in some parts has a view of hills of sand, the particles of which, when a hurricane blows, mix with the wind, and whiten the ropes of vessels and render it most unpleasant to be in the vicinity.

   • 1931, Hosea Ballou Morse; Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Far Eastern International Relations‎, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 97:

     In the latter year, the viceroy issued a proclamation denouncing opium smoking, and ordering the rigorous enforcement of the laws; from now on ships began to trade in opium along the coast to the east and north. Soon storeships were stationed at Namoa, on the border between Kwangtung and Fukien, and elsewhere farther north, to serve as depots of supplies for the brigs and schooners which formed the connecting link with Lintin.

   • 1958, Waley, Arthur, The Opium War through Chinese Eyes‎, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., published 1973, →ISBN, OCLC 473881182, page 47:

     His next report to Peking arrived on July 8th and seems to have been sent on June 13th. It concerned a fresh outbreak of smuggling at Namoa, on the northern borders of Kwangtung, and makes no reference to any general plan for stamping out the opium trade in the future.

   • 1974, Alexander Laing, Joseph J. Thorndike, editor, The American Heritage History of Seafaring America‎, New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, LCCN 74-5301, OCLC 866558, page 261:

     Hazards and oddities of the opium traffic appear in a report of the first confrontation with Chinese by the people of the Rose, a 150-ton clipper brigantine designed by Joe Lee of Boston to Forbes's order, and sent out in 1836 by way of the Strait of Magellan and the Sandwich Islands. She picked up 300 chests of opium, valued at $1,000 apiece, from a receiving ship below Canton and sailed three days up the coast to Namoa Island, where she encountered the barge of a Chinese commodore. The master of the Rose explained that contrary winds had driven him off course, an explanation clearly absurd in the favorable monsoon.

   • 1991, Simon Long, Taiwan: China's Last Frontier‎, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, LCCN 90-43872, OCLC 22114974, page 6:

     In 1563, pirates expelled from their base on Namoa Island on the Guangdong border, took refuge on Taiwan, which was to remain an important pirate lair until the arrival of the Dutch, followed by Chinese and then Manchu forces in the seventeenth century.

Anagrams

• Amano, Amona