1684, Edm. Halley, “A Theory of the Tides at the Bar of Tunking”, inPhilosophical Transactions[1], volume XIV,Oxford,→OCLC,page687:
It would be however a very acceptable thing if ſome curiousNavigators would inform us, whattides orCurrents are found atMacao,Quemoy, and other places on theCoast ofChina and onFormoſa ; it being moſt probable that thisflood cometh out of theNorth Eaſt, alongſt the Coaſt ofChina, for that the NortherlyMoonsoon is found to occaſion the higheſtſpring-tides.
Macao is a ſmall Iſland in the Bay ofQuantung, a Province ofChina, at a little diſtance from it ; in which is a Town bearing the ſame Name, heretofore the moſt famous and wealthy Mart of the Portugueſes, and granted to them by the Chineſes ; but its Reputation is now a great deal leſs :[...]
Captain King began now to entertain apprehenſions, leſt, in the proſecution of our ſearch for thoſe iſlands, we ſhould get ſo far to the ſouth as to be under the neceſſity of paſſing to leeward of the Pratas ; in which caſe, it might have proved extremely difficult for ſuch bad ſailing veſſels as our to fetchMacao, eſpecially if the wind ſhould continue to blow (as it now did) from the north-north-eaſt and north.
1905,J. Dyer Ball,Macao: The Holy City; The Gem of the Orient Earth[4], China Baptist Publication Society, page1:
The Portuguese Colony ofMacao is situated on a rocky peninsula in the Heung Shan (Fragrant Hills) District in the Kwong Chau Prefecture of the Kwong Tung, or Canton Province, in the south eastern part of the Empire of China.
1975 March 9, “Mme. Chiang warns against detente”, inFree China Weekly[5], volume XVI, number 9,Taipei,page 1:
The First Lady charged that the Maoists are making use of the Portuguese, through their small enclave ofMacao, to carry out trade in drugs that are aimed in enslaving and demoralizing the people of the free world. She said the narcotics trade also is providing Chinese Communist leaders with a major source of revenue for use in carrying out their subversive, revolutionary tactics in other countries.
The territory ofMacao is made up of a small peninsula on the Chinese coast and two neighboring islands. Located at the mouth of the Pearl River, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) from the Chinese city of Canton,Macao was once a safe harbor for Chinese fishermen.
1994, Jimmy M. Skaggs, “Shoveling It: Life and Labor on Guano Islands”, inThe Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion[7],New York:St. Martin's Griffin,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page162:
Prostrate from opium wars and divided into spheres of European influence, China was unable to protect her citizens from Occidentals who seduced them to immigrate. Poor, illiterate Chinese peasants—especially atMacao after the British Passenger Act (1855) drove the "coolie trade" from Hong Kong—were easily duped by foreigners who promised them better lives, often in the gold fields of California, once indentures of four to five years had been satisfied.
