Makung

We may remark here, that the Pescadore Group of islands forms one of the six districts which constitute Táiwán fú 臺灣府, the department of Táiwán, or Formosa. The Group is called by the Chinese, in their statistical works, Panghú ting, 澎湖廳, or the district of Panghú, and is under the immediate government of a magistrate, a subordinate of the prefect, or chífú, of Formosa. He resides at Mákung (Macon, as the place is called by foreigners), and has under his command a few hundred soldiers.

[1845 June, Richard Collinson, “Sailing Directions for the Panghú, or Pescadore Archipelago, with notices of the islands.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XIV, number 6, Canton, →OCLC, page 249

The situation of the French troops is better than recent overdrawn accounts have indicated. The French fleet has bombarded the forts defending Pong-Hon and Makung, dismantling the forts and burning the village of Makung. The Chinese garrison suffered severely.

1885 April 9, “Summary of the Week's News”, in The Nation, volume XL, number 1032, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 295, column 1

All that night the weather seems to have remained quiet but in the morning the sea began to rise and the wind to freshen. This with the tide-rush made so great a surf round the vessel that the fishing boats, (which by this time had been brought off by a small official who observed the disaster from his station in Makung,) could do no more than dodge round at a distance.

1887 October 5, “TAMSUI.”, in North-China Herald, volume XXXIX, number 1053, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 372, column 3

The Emperor of China sent a high mandarin to meet an official delegated for the purpose by the Mikado, and the island was transferred to the Japanese with all due formality, last month, at Makung, the chief city of the Pescadores.

1895 August 24, “The Formosan Imbroglio.”, in The Saturday Review, volume 80, number 2078, page 230, column 2

On March 29, Courbet, with a landing force, arrived at the Pescadores and bombarded the weak forts protecting the harbours at Ponghun and Mahung, where landings were effected, and Makung was occupied on March 31.

1926, H. W. Wilson, chapter V, in Battleships in Action, volume I, Toronto: Ryerson Press, →OCLC, page 82