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CONTENTS.
| Chapter VII. | Formosa Takow harbour, Formosa—La-mah-kai—Difficulties of navigation—Tai-wan-fu—The Taotai—His yamen—How to cancel a state debt—The Dutch in 1661—Sylvan lanes—Medical missions—A journey to the interior—Old watercourses—Broken land—Hak-ka settlers—Poahbe—Pepohoan village—Baksa valley—The name 'Isla Formosa'—A long march—The central mountains—Bamboo bridges—'Pau-ah-liau' village—The physician at work—Ka-san-po village—A wine-feast—Interior of a hut—Pepohoan dwellings—A savage dance—Savage hunting-grounds—La-lung village—Return journey. |
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| {{{1}}}„VIII. | Fooshow and the River Min The Japanese in Formosa—Cause of the invasion—The River Min—Foochow Arsenal—Chinese gunboats—Foochow city and great bridge—A City of the dead—Its inhabitants—Beggars—Thieves—Lepers—Ku-shan Monastery—A hermit—Tea plantation on Paeling hills —Voyage up the Min—Shui-kow—An up-country Farm—Captain Sheng and his spouse—Yen-ping city—Sacrificing to the dead—Shooting the Yen-ping rapids —A Native passenger-boat. |
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| {{{1}}}„IX. | Shanghai. Ningpo. Hankow. The Yangtsze. Steam traffic in the China Sea—In the wake of a typhoon—Shanghai—Notes of its early history—Japanese raids—Shanghai foreign settlement—Paul Sü, or 'Su-kwang-ki'—Shanghai city—Ningpo—Native soldiers—Snowy valley—The Mountains—Azaleas—The monastery of the Snowy Crevice—The thousand-fathom precipice—Buddhist monks—The Yangtsze Kiang—Hankow—The Upper Yangtsze, Ichang—The Gorges—The great Tsing-tan rapid—Mystic mountain lights—A dangerous disaster—Kwei-fu—Our return—Kiukiang—Nanking; Its Arsenal—The death of Tsing-kwo-fan—Chinese superstition. |
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