Pakhoi

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a seaport of China; opened to foreign trade in 1876; on the N. shore of the Gulf of Tonkin. The harbor is shallow. Trade does not flourish. The imports-cottons, woolens, opium, riceaverage $4,048,500 per annum; the exports-tin, sugar, indigo, aniseed, hides, groundnut oil- $ 1,148,500. Pop. over 20,000. PALACIO VALDÉS, ARMANDO. A Spanish novelist. He was born in 1853, at Entralgo, Asturias, and studied law at Madrid. He there became editor of "La Revista Europea," and while so engaged began to write fiction. His first success came with "El Señorito Octavio" in 1881, but this was excelled by "Marta y Maria" which immediately won popular favor. His other works include: "Aguas Fuertes"; "José"; "El cuatro poder"; "La Hermana San Sulpicio"; PALÆARCTIC REGION " La espuma "; " La fe "; " El maestrante"; "El origen del personiento"; "Tristan, o el pesimismo," etc. Nearly all are translated into English and other languages. PALÆARCTIC REGION, a very extensive region, comprising all temperate Europe and Asia, from Iceland to Bering Straits, and from the Azores to Japan. To the S. it includes the extra-tropical part of the Sahara and Arabia, and all Persia, Kabul, and Baluchistan to the Indus. It comes down to a little below the upper limit of forests in the Himalayas, and includes the larger N. portion of China, not quite so far down the coast as Amoy. or PALEICH- PALÆICHTHYES, THYES, a sub-class of fishes. The heart has a contractile conus arteriosus, intestine with a spiral valve; optic nerves non-decussating or only partly decussating. It embraces two orders, Chondropterygii and Ganoidei.