Bentham had been in China in 1782, and he acknowledged that he had got the idea of watertight compartments by looking at Chinese junks there.
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The Navy men are taken to a prisoner-of-war camp on the coast where they are held as spies to be Chinese junk.
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Richard Cocks, head of the English factory in Hirado, reported that 60 to 70 Chinese junks visited Nagasaki in 1614, sailed by Fukienese smugglers.
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The Chinese junk is believed to be older than the Spanish galleons that plied the busy Manila-Acapulco trade route run by Spain in the 16th century.
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By the last quarter of the 19th century, Moro pirates had virtually disappeared and the maritime influence of the Sultanate became dependent on the Chinese Junk trade.
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Antique jars and plates confiscated from fishermen have led officials to a sunken ancient Chinese junk containing a treasure of Chinese and Thai porcelains, a museum official said Friday.
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Creamers, plates and teapots in the exhibition depict men on skiffs navigating small boats next to docks, clippers at port, Chinese junks under sail and exotic seaside pagodas.
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The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the building to look like the Chinese junk, a Chinese sailboat design dating from ancient times and still in use today.
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The Chinese killed and captured so many Portuguese that only three Portuguese ships survived the battle, out of the many ships and Chinese junks with which they attacked the Chinese.
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While she maintained the blockade, " Aurora " recaptured some valuable Chinese junks, and unsuccessfully chased the ship " Coromandel ", up the river.
