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''Keying'' (Chinese: , p ''Qíyīng'') was a three-masted, 800-ton Foochow Chinese trading junk which sailed from China around the Cape of Good Hope to the United States and Britain between 1846 and 1848. ''Keying'' had been purchased in August 1846 in secrecy by British businessmen in Hong Kong, defying a Chinese law prohibiting the sale of Chinese ships to foreigners. She was renamed after the Manchu official Keying, based on an irregular romanization of his native name. The ''Keying'' was manned by 12 British and 30 Chinese sailors (the latter all Cantonese). She was commanded by Captain Charles Alfred Kellett, also British. * ''Keying'' left Hong Kong in December 1846. * She rounded the Cape of Good Hope in March 1847. * She stopped at St Helena in April 1847. * She was in New York in July 1847. * She visited Boston in November 1847. * She then arrived in Britain in April 1848. ==American visit== The ''Keying'' was the first ship from China to visit New York. She moored off the Battery on the southern tip of Manhattan in July 1847, and was received with great fanfare. The Chinese crew of ''Keying'' were understandably angry as they had signed on only for an eight-month voyage to Singapore and Batavia (now Jakarta). Twenty-six of them left ''Keying'' and returned to Canton on board the ''Candace'', which sailed 6 October 1847. ''Keying'' stayed several months in New York. 4,000 visitors a day paid 25 cents to board the ship and observe its design and crew. P. T. Barnum had a copy of ''Keying'' built in Hoboken (Barnum claimed he had it towed from China), and exhibited it with a crew which may have included some of the ''Keying'' Chinese. However the ''Brooklyn Eagle'' described Barnum's crew as "one third white and two thirds negroes or mulattoes", so probably no real ''Keying'' crew were present. ''Keying'' also moored in Boston on November 18, 1847, by the Charles River Bridge, according to the ''Boston Evening Transcript'' of 1847. She was visited by many people, with as many as four to five thousand on Thanksgiving Day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keying (ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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