HILL TRIBES OF NORTH FORMOS\. té 
in their numerous encounters with their would-be extermina- 
tors. 
On occasions the men sometimes wear tied over their right 
shoulder and flowing down the back and across the chest, a 
square piece of variegated cloth (worn by women as a sort 
of petticoat, tied round the waist and reaching to the knees), 
but this article of apparel is worn more by the women than 
the men. 
They wear another kind of coat, or rather jacket, called the 
fighting jacket. It is made in every way lke the ee 
but in its size. Instead of extending low down the body 
only reaches as far as the waist, and is more like a shell Hane 
without sleeves than anything else. It is made of hemp, very 
closely interwoven with threads of scarlet long-ells, a colour 
which, amongst the northern tribes, seems to be the favourite. 
Further south, towards the Sylvian Range, coats embroidered 
with blue thread of long-ells are more the fashion. The 
long-ells and camlets used by the border savages are 
obtained from their neighbours, the Chinese hillmen. In 
describing the dress of the savages, I am alluding at present 
more especially to that worn by men living in the hills to the 
North of N. Lat. 24, and to the Kast of 121 E. Long. There 
appears to be very li ttle variety in the costumes worn in this 
region, that is, in the lower ranges of hills, but at 6,000 to 
8,000 feet above the sea level, great differences in the appear- 
ance of the dresses as well as in the manners and ways 
of the people are observable. A rather curious apology for 
a great coat is worn in damp or rainy weather, of which they 
get avery full share at all times of the year, for the lofty 
mountain ranges, varying from 4,000 to 12 090 feet running 
nearly the whole length ‘of the island, offer a great attraction 
to rain clouds. 
This coat is made generally of the skin of the large brown 
deer, only partially cured by exposure to the sun and wind. 
The design is about as rude as anything can be, a slit of 
about six inches in length is made in the hide and at the end of 
the slit a circular piece of the es is cut out, allowing just room 
for the neck. The stiffness of the hide and the narrow space 
