![]() ![]() This region is heavily infested with inner river bandits and sea pirates who can sail in and out freely. Translation of text from the map: "The coastal region of Xing Hui and Hu Men in Canton Province consists of an important strategic point which should be given sufficient defense attention. Scroll map of the China coast unrolled to show the mouth of the Pearl (Zhu) River and the exaggerated importance of the Macau area. 1787-1806 Scroll Map of China Coast, Late Eighteenth Century. It also identifies a "Chinese village" adjacent to the European city. This generalized map of the city and port of Macau, which appeared in a multi-volume maritime atlas published by the French publisher, Jacques Nicolas Bellin, provides one the earliest depictions of the city's street pattern and the location of some of the important buildings. ![]() French Plan of Macau, 1764 " Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao." The cartouche highlights the European trading connections with the Chinese merchants in this region. Map of Quang-Tong (Guangdong) Province from a mid-eighteenth-century French atlas of China. In Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise French Atlas of China, 1737 Jean d'Anville, "Province de Quang-Tong." Macau is shown on this linked page, which covers part of the coast of southern China and Aynam (Hainan) Island. Soundings are indicated in the coastal waters. Prepared for and used by the notorious British pirate Bartholomew Sharpe, this manuscript atlas depicts the east coast of Africa and the Asian coast from the Red Sea along India, Ceylon, the East Indies, and Southeast Asia to China. In A Description of the Sea Coasts, Rivers, etc. British Buccaneer Atlas, 1696 William Hacke. This provincial map and the maps of other Chinese provinces in this atlas were based on the cartographic compilations of the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini and published by the noted Dutch publisher Joan Blaeu. Map of Quantung (Guangdong) Province, showing the coastal location of Macau. In Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Listen to this page Selected Maps and Views of Macau 1655-1764 Dutch Atlas of China, 1655 "Quantung, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Duodecima." ![]()
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