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incessantly and sending his collections to the West. Nothing 

 remained for me to do but to devote myself to my work with 

 all the energy at my command. It is for compelling me to 

 do this, that I am grateful to him. Those who at times have 

 complimented me have in no whit helped on my work. He was 

 my bcnefector, because he gave me an important stimulus on 

 the one hand, and on the other, set before me the living example 

 of his own devoted life. 



In February of this 3^ear, I was sent to Formosa for further 

 collecting. On the day before T started from Taihoku for the 

 savage districts, I visited the learned Father's grave, and there 

 I said to myself that I desired to follow his noble examjjle as 

 far as I could with my poor abilit}'. In m}' travels, I heard 

 much about his experiences and saw numerous traces of his 

 work. I first went to Rinkiho and Keitao, then to the Arisan 

 range, crossing many mountains. When descending through the 

 dense forests of Arisan, I saw Mt. Tozan, towering up before 

 my eyes, bold and high in the blue sk}-, with its bare precipices 

 above tinted into rose by the morning sun, and its lower slopes 

 clad in the dark green of its deep forests. There the people told 

 me how the Father had taken a few provisions on his back 

 with his press-plates and started for the mountain to collect in 

 its beautiful valle3^ He remained away for some da\'s stopping 

 at night quite alone under a crag and came back cheerfully 

 wMth large collections. That a man of sixtj^-eight 3'ears should 

 have taken every thing he needed on his back, and climbed so 

 steep a mountain as Tozan, is nothing short of astonishing. 

 Wherever I went, I was greath^ encouraged by his experiences 

 and renewed the promise that I made to myself before his grave. 

 I went far into the savage districts and explored Mt. Gokwan- 

 zan, towering majestically above the central ranges of the island, 

 and raising its peaks over eleven thousemd feet into the heavens. 

 I w^ent down to Hakku and uj) to Suisha. Then I went to 

 the mountainous regions of Giran prefecture, which until a few 

 years ago had been impossible to visit on account of the head- 

 hunters. During my travels, I never forgot the beautiful example 

 set before me by the Father; 3'et I fear I shall never be able 



