Whampoa anchorage

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The Whampoa Anchorage, c. 1810

The Whampoa anchorage was the old English name for the anchorage that was an intermediate way station between Macau and the city of Canton now known as Guangzhou, situated in the Whampoa Roads. Images of the anchorage are common in 18th century western art.[1][2] Edmund Roberts visited Whampoa in 1832. He noted that passing through the anchorage, paper was being burned at homes and on boats, representing ancestral veneration. Roberts described the island as being an unsafe place for outsiders in many areas, noting that foreigners being beaten for entering certain areas. The area was very low in altitude, and a bank was built around the living areas to keep the tide out. Locals grew rice, sugar cane, and other vegetables.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved January 27, 2014. 
  2. ↑ Lampe, Evan (2010) "The Most Miserable Hole in the Whole World" Western Sailors and the Whampoa Anchorage, 1770-1850 ,International journal of maritime history, Vol. 22, No. 1, pages 15-40
  3. ↑ Roberts, Edmund (1837). Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 70–71. 
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