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Naturally, his collections were very extensive, his herbarium at 

 Aomori beiii_<4 by lar the largest in Japan. His love of plants 

 became ever more intense, and in his advanced years, he devoted 

 himself entirely to making collections. Twice, he went to 

 Formosa; first, in 1901, and again, in 1913, when he stayed 

 there until his death. In all parts of Formosa, except where 

 the i^resence of dangerous savages prevented, he travelled, 

 traversing pathless peaks and precipitous valleys. Once when 

 guided to a mountain by a Japanese friend, he became entangled 

 in a pathless thicket. His guide after some effort, having found 

 a path, called the Father to come towards it. But the latter, 

 who never followed a walkable way, was eagerly looking for 

 plants and replying, 'This is my way, not that," buried him- 

 self again in the dense thicket. Neither wild savages nor 

 poisonous snakes had terrors for Father Faurie, when plants 

 were in siijlit. Once when I asked him how he managed to 

 walk through pathless woods where snakes were abundant, he 

 answered simph^ "I put on a pair of zori " (peasants' straw- 

 sandals), and showed me his bare legs covered with scratches. 



Pere Faurie's second excursion to Formosa was the last and 

 perhaps the most extensive of his life. Arriving there in Decem- 

 ber, 1913, he collected in various places,* and finally in Kwaren- 

 ko prefecture, where he was taken ill and came back to Taihoku 

 to the church at Daidotei. 



On reaching the church, he seemed quite exhausted ; his shirt 

 was tinged with blood, and his nose was bleeding. Nevertheless, 



* 111 December, 1913, he collected in the vicinity of Taihoku at such places as 

 Maruyama, Ilokuto and Tamsui. In January of the following year, he went south- 

 ward to Takao, Mankingsing and Raisha, and northwards to Korisho, Toyen Uka- 

 seki, Shinten and Kelung. In April, he collected in Shinten and Ural; in May, 

 Hokuto ; from May to July, in the Arisan range; in September, in Hokuto, Tamsui, 

 Shakko and Kelung ; in October, in Hokuto, Taihoku, Tamsui, Kwannonzan and 

 Kelung; in November, Maruyama, Ilokuto, Tamsui, Kelung and Shinten; in Decem- 

 ber in Shakkn, Kagi and the Arisan ninge for the second lime. In January, 1915, 

 he collected in Ilokuto; in February, Shorin, Hokuto and Mt. Daiton ; in March, in 

 Taihoku; from March tn April, in the Arisan mountains for the third time ; in April, 

 in Mt. Daiton for the second time, in Taihoku and Hokuto ; in May, in Kappanzan ; 

 and lastly, from May tt) June, he collected in Kwarenkd. For this information, I am 

 indebted to Mr. K. Sawada of Formosa. 



