Biên Đông còn gọi là biển Nam Trung Hoa theo tên tiếng Anh The South China Sea và tiếng Pháp Mer de Chine Méridionale | “It needs no violence of language to state the fact that, there is no a nation in all Asia so human or generous in their treatment of foreigners, as this people. .The last few years alone have furnished such illustrations of this characters as might put civilized Europe to the blush. Foreign ships have been repeatedly wrecked, and their crews – French, British, Spanish, Dutch, European sailors and lascars – cast away on that iron-bound but hospitable coast; and the shipwrecked mariners have in every instance not only been uninjured, but treated with a kindness and sympathy perfectly romantic. The ship Castle Huntley, of 1500 tons , was wrecked only sixteen months ago on the Paracels , and sixty crews of her cast away on the Cochin Chinese coast, more dead than alive, were taken care of by these kind creatures with the utmost tenderness; they were fed, clothed and nursed; the weak were carried in sedan chairs; money were provided for their necessities; and finally, the King sent them down to Singapore in a ship freighted by himself on purpose. “
