In the days of Morga, towards the close of the sixteenth century, from thirty to forty Chinese junkswere in the habit of annually visiting Manila (generally in March); towards the end of June a galleon used to sail for Acapulco.
It was feared that the junks would offer their cargoes to the Dutch if any obstacle was put in the way of their coming to Manila.
These junks are said to come chiefly from Amoy, where the cottons, etc.
Before that event, some accounts state that the trade with the Chinese was of great extent, and that from four to five hundred junks arrived annually from Cambojia, with which Sulu principally traded.
The Coromandel was steaming up the left-hand channel, when she ran on to a line of junks which had been sunk across the passage.
The gunboats drew upwards of seven feet, the junks less than three.
Several fleets of war-junks were destroyed, some of the junksbeing blown up with all on board.
The thought of the Chinese habit of torturing their captives must have added to the natural anxiety of depression on board the junks and to the terrible strain upon the commander.
The other twelve junks were immediately set on fire, while the gallant marines charged down the street, and put all the jingall firers to flight.
The British seized a number of junks and a steamer and 8 guns, which had kept up such a fire on the preceding day.
The junks were fast craft, and the crews pulled for their lives, to aid the sails, so that the steamers had to put on all speed to come up with them.
Of the fleet of war-junks captured, only five were saved from destruction; and for some time during the night they were burning away, sending their shot right and left, and occasionally one of them would explode.
Away went the junks up the creek, the boats hotly pursuing them.
The retreat commenced on the afternoon of the 19th June, and it was necessarily slow, as the junkscould not be got along very fast, our men not being accustomed to the craft, and the river shoals making the passage in places difficult.
In this way sixteen junks were captured in succession, and destroyed in the principal channel.
The boys were gathered at the rail, and, as Tom spoke, they gazed with interest at the two long narrow junksthat were drawing swiftly toward them.
The boys were grouped together at the stern toward which the junks were pulling.
The Chinaman of the villainous face--those junks putting out from land!
The crowded junks bore down on either side of the ship, and as though with a single movement, a score of pirates leaped at the rails and grasped the wires to pull themselves aboard.
The two junks were seething with activity and excitement.
They dropped sullenly into the junks and drew away from the ship until they were out of range of bullets.
Come out of your trance, Ralph, and look at these two junks just coming out from that point of land over there," rallied Tom.
Native junks darted about saucily here and there, while queer yellow faces looked up at them from behind the mats and lateen-rigged sails.
The prows threw up fountains of water on each side as the junks made for the crippled ship like wolves leaping on the flanks of a wounded deer.
Closing in upon the reef and making for the entrance on the south-west side, we noticed that boats were passing to and fro between the junks and the ship.
There were probably as many more, too, in the junks astern, which were coming up more leisurely, leaving their comrades in the van to bear the brunt of the fray.
The British bombarded Canton and sunk a large fleet of Chinese war junks up the river.
A regular engagement was fought and four of the junks were sunk.
Every day there passed up and down the bay nearly a hundred large junks and a great number of fishing and other boats.
But the allies were defeated and four hundred of the war-junks of Japan given to the flames.
It fell with all its force on the Chinese fleet, lifting the junks like straws on the great waves which suddenly arose, tossing them together, hurling some upon the shore, and forcing others bodily beneath the sea.
The Mongols had no vessels, but they set themselves with their usual activity to build a fleet, and in a short time had launched upon the Han fifty junks larger than those used by the Chinese.
A fleet of junks was built, and all the resources of the empire were employed.
Gathering the few war-junks that remained, he set sail that night, bursting through the chains that crossed the stream, and cutting his way with sword and spear through the first line of the Mongol fleet.
It is crowded with steamers, ferryboats, Chinese junks with queer-shaped sails of yellow matting, sampans, trim steam launches and various other craft.
Having now obtained possession of the precious stone all the junks set sail for China, and when they had got a long way off from Kinabalu, ONG KANG asked ONG SUM PING for the stone, and thereupon a quarrel ensued between them.
Even while I looked, the helmets of other official watchers appeared in the distance, as immature junks upon the storm-tossed Whang-Hai, apparently striving fruitlessly to reach us.
We'll do the same, and there's no reason in the world why we shouldn't capture six junks at the least.
Following along the west shore, we rounded Point Pedro in plain view of the Chinese shrimp villages, and a great to-do was raised when they saw one of their junks towing behind the familiar fish patrol sloop.
To make matters serious, during all the excitement of boarding the junks the Reindeer had not been bailed, and the water was beginning to slush over the cockpit floor.
Realizing the hopelessness of the pursuit, I filled away, threw out the main-sheet, and drove down before the wind upon the junksto leeward, where I had them at a disadvantage.
Thus commissioned, I obtained one of the smallest junks of the fleet, had it repainted and disguised to resemble a trading vessel, set sail from the island, and landed this morning, when I so nearly fell into the hands of the rats of Tartars.
An old law had directed that all vessels of a certain size were to be burned, and only small coasting junks built.
The bay of Yedo was covered with great state barges and junks with many-colored sails.
The town of Uraga was usually not a very busy place, and the government officers spent their time drinking tea, smoking, and lounging in the sun, and occasionally collecting custom duties from junks bound to other harbors.
The squat sails of junks danced for an instant like autumn leaves in the breeze and disappeared, and there was no solidity in the islands against which the glassy levels splintered in snow.
Yes, it is a sea of mystery and romance, and the white sails of the junks are silver in the moonlight.
The country appears to have remained unmolested by external foes until 1798, when a fleet of pirate-junks made its appearance with the usual disagreeable results.
Ninety-six junks wrecked on the coast and over one hundred men drowned.
It is navigable by junks between that city and Ninguta, though the torrents in its course make the voyage backwards and forwards one of considerable difficulty.
It is navigable by native junks above Kirin, which city may also be reached by steamer.
In this voyage our men seized two Chinese junks laden with merchandise, plundered all the goods, and brought here one of the laden junks and four Chinese.
The Japanese current is neighborly to the province, and it has drifted Japanese junks to these shores.
A few small junks are sent in summer to the land of Yedso, a country about fifty leagues from the northern extremity of Japan; and it is said that they bring much gold from thence.
In their native countries they are used for a variety of manufacturing purposes, also for ropes and cables used by junks and other coasting vessels.
For this purpose young trees of about a foot in diameter are selected and cut into junks of the same length as the sack required.
At my suggestion, a dummy figure was placed in position; a gun was fired in the required direction; and sure enough the shot blew the effigy to pieces and went wandering among the junks crowding the river.
To make matters serious, during all the excitement of boarding the junks the Reindeer had not been bailed, and the water was beginning to slush over the cockpit floor.
Following along the west shore, we rounded Point Pedro in plain view of the Chinese shrimp villages, and a great to- do was raised when they saw one of their junkstowing behind the familiar fish patrol sloop.
Junks moved slowly by, sliding down with the current--somber seagoing craft out of Tientsin and Cheefoo and Swatow and even Canton.
What are their ports, supplied with a few junks and barks, to our navigation, our merchants' fleets, our large and powerful navies?
The rails can be adjusted to any distance apart, by fitting in short pieces or junks of pole between the ends of the long bars.
These, when laid on a board in rows, can be cut up into short junks by placing a strong knife on them, and striking it on the back with any convenient instrument.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "junks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
