See also:

• PESCADORES (i.e. fishers)

PESCADORES (i.e. fishers)  a See also:

• GROUP

group of islands (called by the See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese HOkO to or Hoko Gunto) lying 30 M. See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of See also:

• FORMOSA
• FORMOSA (called Taiwan by the Chinese, and following them by the Japanese, into whose possession it came after their war with China in 1895)

Formosa, from which they are separated by the See also:

• PESCADORES (i.e. fishers)

Pescadores Channel, about the tropic of See also:

• CANCER (" THE CRAB ")
• CANCER, LUIS (d. 1549)
• CANCER, or CARCINOMA (from Lat. cancer, Gr. KapKivwga, an eating ulcer)

Cancer . The islands number 48 (21 inhabited), have a See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast-See also:

• LINE

line of 98.67 See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles, a See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• AREA

area of 85.50 sq, m., and a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of about 55,000, principally See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese . See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

Flat and with unproductive See also:

• SOIL

soil, they are swept during one See also:

• HALF

half of the See also:

• YEAR

year by violent N.E. winds, and also See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie full in the path of the numerous typhoons that See also:

• RUSH
• RUSH, BENJAMIN (1745–1813)
• RUSH, RICHARD (1780–1859)

rush up the Strait of Formosa . Meteorological observations taken by the Japanese during a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of three years show that the See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• AVERAGE

average number of stormy days is 237 . The anchorage is at Mako (Makyu or Makun) on the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Penghu . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is fishing (whence the old See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish name which has come into See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general use) and dried See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish are exported .