FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL 



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all my people believe 

 that when we die we 

 all must walk up the 

 rainbow to the Land- 

 of-After-Death. 



"At the end of the 

 rainbow the gateman 

 stands, and when we 

 come he will say to 

 us, 'Show me your 

 hand.' And he will 

 look at our hand, and 

 if he finds it clean he 

 will say, 'Go to the 

 right,' and he will 

 kick us into the dark 

 nothingness below; 

 but if he looks at our 

 hand and finds it 

 stained he will say, 

 'You may enter,' and 

 he will allow us to 

 pass within." 



JAPANESE SCHOOL FOR 

 SAVAGE CHILDREN 



Before we left 

 Kampanzan we visited 

 the savage school in 

 which Kim Soan was 

 a teacher. The chil- 

 dren sang the Japan- 

 ese national anthem 

 for us with very 

 pleasing voices. I 

 have never heard Jap- 

 anese or Chinese chil- 

 dren sing half so well. 



Then several of 

 the children made 

 speeches, which were very amusing, as 

 they were so obviously the product of the 

 teacher's pen. Each speech started some- 

 what as follows : "I am a poor little sav- 

 age boy. Before the kind Japanese came 

 here, I was very ignorant. Now my kind 

 teacher is teaching me many things," and 

 more of the same sort. 



The Japanese are taking steps to train 

 the savages in certain manual arts, chiefly 

 cloth-weaving on hand-looms, so that 

 they can earn their living, now that they 

 can no longer follow the more exciting 

 life of the chase. 



I left Kampanzan with a feeling of 

 depression. There is something poig- 



"AEAS, POOR YORICK, I KNEW HIM WEEE !" 



A nearer view of a skull museum, showing the trophies placed on 

 bamboo poles. 



nantly pathetic in the spectacle of these 

 wild creatures of the forest tied down to 

 a dull domesticity, even as wild beasts 

 captive in cages. 



FORMOSA ONCE THE STRONGHOLD OP JAP- 

 ANESE AND CHINESE PIRATES 



The bulk of the population of Formosa 

 is, of course, Chinese. Several centuries 

 ago the island used to be the stronghold 

 of both Chinese and Japanese pirates, 

 who found it a very convenient base 

 from which to intercept vessels follow- 

 ing the trade routes between Japan and 

 the rest of the Orient. 



It was not until the fourteenth century 



