Tonking

About twenty years later the French settled themselves in Tonking by the same ways and means, and between Tonking and Siam, in another small kingdom called the Mekong valley, a similar dispute arose, as both the Siamese and the Annamite king claimed feudal right in this area.

Indo-China and the Japanese 1941

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Deanne Tonking writes, Supportive and enthusiastic hoopers came to show their love and generosity.

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Here in Tonking the woman is perhaps as well off as in her native hut until the planter goes home or brings out a European wife, but in some way or another there is usually an untoward ending.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Customs regulations, tend to check development of trade in Tonking, 15.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

The real history of Tonking dates from the administration of M. Doumer,

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Hanoi, capital of Tonking, 10; one of the finest cities in the Far East, 13.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

It is true the forward policy did not originate with M. Doumer, for the value of Tonking as the key to China had been recognized by French statesmen before ever he put foot in the colony, but it was his task to make that policy something more than a pious aspiration.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Haiphong through muddy red channels between the low-lying meadow lands which here border the river Cua-Cam, on the right bank of which lies the chief commercial centre of Tonking.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

She was what is euphemistically called a "cook" in Tonking; just another name for an arrangement so often resulting from the lonely life of Europeans among a slack-fibred dependent alien population.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall