Ofício do assistente do magistrado do distrito de Xiangshan, Gu, ao procurador de Macau, sobre o litígio relacionado com a detenção de Ou Lun-Kun e outros nas águas da Ilha Verde, os quais traficavam, ilegalmente, enxofre, com um escravo negro de um navio da praça de Macau, ancorado nas águas da ilha de Sanchodo
This archival document is an official Qing dynasty dispatch (*pái*) issued on the 10th day of the first lunar month, Qianlong 11 (1746), by Zhang [surname], Magistrate of Xiangshan County, and addressed to the *Yímù* (‘Foreign Headman’) of Macau. It concerns the apprehension of three Chinese subject...
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1746-02-24
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| Subjects: |
Black African crew member
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Chizhou seizure
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Macau Yimu
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Qing Dynasty official dispatch
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Sino-Portuguese jurisdictional interface
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Xiangshan County magistrate
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Xiangshan Naval Garrison
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coastal security enforcement
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foreign vessel encounter
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illicit trade regulation
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judicial interrogation
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sulphur smuggling
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sulphur trafficking prosecution
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/H2MB6VKW/viewer_H2MB6VKW.html |
| Summary: | This archival document is an official Qing dynasty dispatch (*pái*) issued on the 10th day of the first lunar month, Qianlong 11 (1746), by Zhang [surname], Magistrate of Xiangshan County, and addressed to the *Yímù* (‘Foreign Headman’) of Macau. It concerns the apprehension of three Chinese subjects—Ou Lunkun, Zhang Zeyou, and Ou Guanzhang—for illicit trafficking in sulphur, following their encounter with a foreign vessel (*jìshuǐ yángchuán*) anchored off Shangcun and Xiácūn in the twelfth lunar month of Qianlong 10 (December 1745/January 1746). The offenders confessed to exchanging firewood for 678 *jīn* (c. 407 kg) of sulphur with a Black African crew member (*hēi guǐzi*), a term used in Qing administrative records to denote persons of sub-Saharan African origin serving aboard foreign ships. The document records the seizure of sixteen packages of sulphur and one vessel by garrison troops (*xùn bīng*) near Chizhou (Red Isle), the interrogation of suspects and witness Yang Hongqi, and the formal transmission of evidence via a *jiě* from Wu [surname], Commandant of the Right Camp of Xiangshan Naval Garrison. It instructs the *Yímù* to identify the foreign vessel’s registry and crew, ascertain its current status, and report findings expeditiously to enable judicial adjudication (*shěnxiáng*) and compilation of the full dossier (*shěnxiáng wén’àn*). The text reflects Qing maritime regulation, ethno-administrative categorisation, and jurisdictional oversight in the Macau–Xiangshan corridor. |
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