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Encyclopedia Britannica



SWATOW (also Shan`tow)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 184 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SWATOW (also Shan`tow) , a port of China, in the province of Kwang-tung, opened to foreign trade in 1869. The populationis upwards of 6o,000. The town is situated at the mouth of the main branch of the river Han, which 30 miles inland flows past the
great
  city of Ch'aochow Fu, or Tai-chu (Tie-chu), while the surrounding country is more populous and full of towns and villages than any other part of the province. The climate is good, but being situated at the southern end of the Formosa Strait the town is exposed to the full force of the typhoons, and much destruction is occasionally wrought. English merchants settled on
Double
 
Island
  in the river as early as 1856; but the city, which is built on ground but recently recovered from the sea, was formerly a mere fishing
village
 . The trade of the port has rapidly increased. In 1869 the total value of the trade was 4,800,000, in 1884 5,519,772, and in 1904 7,063,579 The surrounding country is a
great
  sugar-cane
district
  producing annually about 2,400,000 cwt. of sugar, and there is an extensive refinery in the town employing up-wards of 600 workmen and possessing a reservoir for 7,000,000 gallons of water. Next in value comes the manufacture of bean-cake, which is also imported in large quantities from Niuchwang, Chifu, Shanghai,
Amoy
  and Hong-Kong. Among the leading exports are tea (since about 1872); grass-cloth, manufactured at
Swatow
  from so-called Taiwan hemp (the fibre of the Boehmeria nivea from Formosa); pine-apple cloth, manufactured in the villages about Chieh-Yang (a town 22 M. distant); oranges, for which the
district
  is famous; cheap fans; and pewter, iron and tin wares.
Swatow
  is also a great emigration port and was the scene of many kidnapping adventures on the part of foreigners in the early days. Their outrages gave rise to much hostile feeling towards foreigners who were not allowed to enter the city of Ch'aochow Fu until the year 1861. Of the whole foreign trade of the port upwards of 83% is in British bottoms, the trade with Hong-Kong being of especial importance.
About 1865 the whole Swatow district was still divided into a number of " independent townships, each ruled by its own head-men," and the population was described in the official gazetteer, as " generally rebellious and wicked in the highest degree." Mr Forrest, British consular agent, relates that in that year he was
witness
  to the preparations for a fight between the people living on the opposite sides of the estuary, which was only pre-vented by a British war-vessel. The Taip`ings swept over the country, and by their ravages and plundering did much to tame the independence of the clans. The
punishment
  inflicted in 1869 by
Commander
  Jones on the inhabitants of Otingpui (Ou-ting-pei), about 8 m. from Swatow, for the attack they had made on the boats of H.M.S. " Cockchafer," showed the Chinese authorities that such piratical villages were not so strong as had been supposed. General Fang (a native of Ch'aochow Fu) was sent to reduce the district to order, and he carried out his instructions with remorseless rigour.


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