| After four months of intense training, Pak, Malcom and 118 partisans boarded four junks and set sail for the mainland. |
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| The most stylish party nowadays would be one held on a yacht, reminiscent of historic entertainment on royal boats or magnificent junks. |
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| China found itself up against the fruits of the British Industrial Revolution, pitting junks against steam warships. |
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| It was built in 1646 with materials brought in bat-winged junks from China and is the oldest Chinese Temple in Malaysia. |
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| In this they closely resembled the Apollo project, begun 540 years after the great junks had sailed from Beijing. |
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| Her squadrons were kept busy flying combat air patrols over inshore forces, strafing mine-laying junks, and supporting troops ashore. |
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| As a fleet of Communist junks prepared to cross the straits, the KMT was saved from ejection by the Korean War and the interposition of the American Seventh Fleet. |
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| This trade became regularized by the 1640s, with Chinese junks bringing the product to Batavia, where it was purchased by the Dutch and shipped by them to Holland. |
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| The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. |
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| One supporter was Zheng Cheng-gong, also known as Koxinga, a half-Japanese supporter of the Mings, who led an army of 100,000 troops and 3,000 junks. |
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| Also the junks brought artisans and tradespeople to the Islands. |
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| Heavily armed clippers, any one of which could have dealt with a whole fleet of Chinese war junks, were spreading opium up the entire Chinese coast. |
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| The Chinese had discovered much earlier, around the 5th century ad, that scurvy at sea could be avoided by carrying live ginger plants on board junks. |
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| Of those that reached the shores of Formosa and splashed through the water to the junks, we hurried to untie the ships and rowed fiercely regardless of the winds. |
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| It's a poor fishing village where the people live in sampans and junks. |
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| In February or March 1608, the Duyfken was involved in hunting Chinese junks north of Ternate. |
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| In practice, evidenced both by traditional sailing routes and seasons and textual evidence junks could not sail well into the wind. |
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| With high weight aloft and no deep keel, junks were known to capsize when lightly laden due to their high centre of gravity. |
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| Another characteristic of junks, interior compartments or bulkheads, strengthened the ship and slowed flooding in case of holing. |
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| Bentham had been in China in 1782, and he acknowledged that he had got the idea of watertight compartments by looking at Chinese junks there. |
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| The largest junks ever built were possibly those of Admiral Zheng He, for his expeditions in the Indian Ocean. |
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| Richard Cocks, the head of the English trading factory in Hirado, Japan, recorded that 50 to 60 Chinese junks visited Nagasaki in 1612 alone. |
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| Many junks were fitted out with carronades and other weapons for naval or piratical uses. |
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| Besides assisting in the governance of the city and first Portuguese coinage, he provided the junks for several diplomatic missions. |
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| The Chinese sent a squadron of junks against Portuguese caravels that succeeded in driving the Portuguese away and reclaiming Tamao. |
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| However, they soon began to shield Chinese junks and a cautious trade began. |
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| In 1524 the Ming dynasty constructed a new fleet of war junks in preparation for further Portuguese incursions. |
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| Through the middle of town there was a clear river which ships and gale junks could sail into. |
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| The great trading dynasty of the Song employed junks extensively. |
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| The British, Americans and French fought several naval battles with war junks in the 19th century, during the First Opium War, Second Opium War and in between. |
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| The sailors say, as sailors all over the world are inclined to do wen conjuring up answer to landlubbers' questions, that it stops junks flying up into the wind. |
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