Chinese Merchants' Lorchas, Canton River, 1857. Second Opium War. 'The lorcha is used in the coasting trade of China by the English and Portuguese...[These vessels have] led to so much dispute in the debates in Parliament upon the war with China'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.
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