2 HILL TRIBES OF NORTH FORMOSA. 
of a Malay, but the lips of the Formosan savage are not so 
thick, neither are their noses (excepting in few instances) quite 
so flat as those of the Malays whom I have seen at Singapore 
and in China. It may safely be said that there is nothing in 
their ply oguamy which resembles the Chinese, their natural 
enemies, whom they imagine to be the only other inhabitants 
of Formosa or indeed of the world. 
On first meeting a savage of the true type (not beggar 
savages who are to be found on the borders and often in Chi- 
nese villages), you notice immediately the wide difference 
between him and the Celestial whom you have left on the 
opposite side of the borders, not only in the shape of his head, 
but particularly in the expression of the eye, which reminds 
you more than anything else of the wild and anxious gaze of a 
Scotch deer-hound. The eyes of most of the young warriors 
are strikingly black and piercing, they always appear to be 
on the move, staring to their full extent and gazing with a clear 
but eager look as it were at some far distant object beyond 
you. In the eye of the younger huntsmen and warriors, you 
cannot recognise care, but the look of those in their prime 
speaks of anxious thought for the morrow and is an index of the 
general feeling of insecurity, which must frequently and 
naturally exist amongst men who almost daily encounter 
dangers from contact with their human enemies, in the shape 
of neighbouring unfriendly tribes or the wily Chinese invader, 
as well as at times the wild animals of the forests, on the flesh 
of which they are, for the most part, dependent for their sub- 
sistence. The expression referred to is not one of fear, but 
denotes rather a life of care and anxiety. 
The head being generally small and round, the face 
is not particularly large or full. The eyes are very dark- 
coloured and ‘straight cut, not at all oblique. In those of 
good-looking young men and women, the lashes are dark and 
long, ey ebrows bla ack, strong and thick, but net overhanging. 
In some faces they often neatly meet at the root ofthe nose. 
They are decidedly a very distinct feature of the face, as beards 
and whiskers are unknown and a moustache is seldom 
attempted, though I have seen certain old members of tribes 
