152 Messrs. Ogilvie-Grant and La Touche on 
without an escort. Last year there was a great deal of 
fighting and a number of Japanese were killed by the 
savages. Now they have drawn a cordon of police-outposts 
and alarm-stations round the whole of the mountainous 
interior from one end of the island to the other, and have 
shut off the savages from raiding the Chinese villages along 
the foothills, and wherever camphor is collected on the 
outlying hills they have also established police-stations. 
“T evidently went to Formosa at the wrong time of the 
year, but I am still in doubt as to which season would be 
the best for the mountains. In the South, possibly from 
November to the beginning of January, and again perhaps 
from the middle of March to the end of April. Even 
then one would be sure to encounter much bad weather. 
English missionaries, who have lived there for thirty years or 
more, tell me that for months at a time in the summer the 
mountains are quite invisible, and this is certainly the case 
during the winter. January and February are quite out 
of the question, for the weather is then extremely severe 
and the snows come down very low. ‘The summer (S.W. 
monsoon) is the wet season, and I could see that certain 
trails and ravines I ascended would be ‘quite impossible 
at that season, and even the savages informed me that it 
was then very difficult to get about. I started from Tainan 
(formerly Taiwanfu) in the first week of January, and went 
about forty-five miles up the line by train to Daksui. From 
there I went a ten or twelve mile trolley-journey to Rinkiho 
(Chinese; Lim-ki-po). All the places have two names, 
Japanese and Chinese. ‘Thence I started on foot to the 
last Chinese village, Ghi-ou-rog, twenty-two miles distant. 
The next day’s journey took me eighteen miles into the 
mountains, to the first savage village of Nama-ka-bang, at an 
elevation of about 2500 feet. The fourth day I arrived at 
Tompo (a second savage village, belonging to a different tribe), 
not a long journey, but a very difficult one ; and the fifth day 
from Tompo to Racu Racu, the highest inhabited village, near 
to Mt. Morrison, was also a short but frightfully difficult 
journey. On the sixth day I made avery long and fatiguing 
