English Dictionary

Lin's American informants soon warned him that the British warships had gone north so as to threaten the island of Chou-shan.

Lin's American informants soon warned him that the British warships had gone north so as to threaten the island of Chou-shan. The British authorities in London had been enlightened as to the strategic potentialities of Chou-shan - an island fifty-one miles around, which grew tea and made rice wine, and was placed off the mouth of China's largest river, the Yangtze.