houqua造句

• Houqua, ( also spelled Howqua or Hoqua ), was the most prominent Hong merchant of the day.
• "Blue Bird " was built as the private motorboat " Houqua " in 1911 by the Matthews Boat Company at Port Clinton, Ohio, for A . A . Augustus of Lakewood, Ohio.
• By the 1820s Cushing was known as the most influential of all the foreigners in Canton, and had struck up a close relationship with the hong merchant Houqua, who at his death in 1843 was said to be the richest man in the world.
• Low launched his own fleet of clippers, among which were the " Houqua ", the first streamlined ship, named after his Chinese business partner who had died in 1843, and the " Samuel Russell ", named after the founder of the mercantile company in which Low had worked as a clerk.
• Stonington was a center of the seal-hunting trade, which Palmer was drawn to in 1819 . In the following year he was assigned to captain a small sloop ( about half the size of Christopher Columbus'ship the " " Houqua " made the journey from New York City to Canton, China in a record 95 days.