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great many of tliem, got up Ins anchor, and went to an 
adjoining harbour, where he -was most graciously received 
for having slain so many of their enemies of the place 
they had just left. Here he fell in with a prince, who 
persuaded him into an alliance against another prince, 
and thus they fought for some time. Finally, he drags 
himself from the island; much to the distress of the prince 
his ally, who loads him down with gold and silver. It is 
impossible to read the count's narrative and say what he 
did see. He was evidently a blood-relative of the Mun- 
chausen family. 
And now, having shown what others say in regard to 
Formosa, let us return to the ‘'old John,” whom we left 
at anchor under shelter of its west coast, at the close of a 
stormy day. Here is what my journal says in regard to 
our arrival, and to what we saw and did upon the follow- 
ing days : — 
“We could see nothing that night save an extensive 
stretch of white sand-beach backed by a sloping green, 
in the rear of which we imagined we saw a village slum- 
bering under the deepening shadows of a high range of 
mountains. Hut this village existed, many said, only in 
the vivid imaginations of a few, and it was not until dark- 
ness had become sufficiently dark to reflect its many 
lights that the fact was generally admitted. The next 
morning, however, we had a most refreshing view spread 
out before us, — green slopes and waving fields of grain, 
broken here and there by extensive tracts of table-land, 
over which we could see the cattle roving in their lazy 
search for the more tender mouthfuls of the abundant 
grass. 
