CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 627

that it is far Hongkong, and

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healthy than

and I have little besite in saying that it is as suitable Europeans

district Eastwor of the Cape of Good Hope, not ever. excepting the islands of Sapan.

any

The lituation is semitrofical, the peater fration of the Exloux being in the t. Temperate Gone, and

interior rising

Invites in the

Ar

height of 12,000 feet, are Shetic.

a great portio of the Year, so that almost

any could be obtained. –

covered with exow

hank

From a register Repto Sobremen the Thermometer rarely attained, 87 degrees at

any persion of the Sund and cool sex Breezes

are very preval Abrent deal of rain falls inte "outh about, Keelung

Tamsay suring the height of the it. E. Monso Lay from the end of November to beginning of March, but though the come weh days, the weather alteju has been fine during my stay in the North, particularly

going further very fine too dur my stag

at Takes and Taiwan. Foo more race apparently falling there during the prevalence of the S. W. Mon The Dutch originally occupies Formosa, aux the emirs of two Strong Forts

Forts, Mealandin

Zealandin us Taiwan the Rad Fort near

inland. -

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It was

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Zamsuy,

a

st

stite in existence. They

sturned

out in appears by Chinese Pirates under Coxinga, whose con ceded any interest his might have b him885 in the matter to the Comite of Peking for

a monetary consideration The Chinese Government, atthough including Formosa aca portion of ... Empire seems beare little nothing about the Exland, with the exception of that parts occupied by the wandering tribes of it or untion, who consist princifully of Fishermen, Pirates and Hakkas from the Provinces of Rumutung and takkien

...there occupy only

a portion of the Const from Congrong, sonst. of Lakes the best coush betover Bay. t. I. Const, rarely going beyond a few miles inland towhice distance they have by degrees driven back the aborigines

The Aborigines

totally distinct Lace from the Chinese and speak different languagen

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on Ke

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bapte Braaker Rn of this 1. Inflexible visited the Island in

1858 in search of Shipwrecked seamen whom it was reporten were detained heri the Evontae at Taiwan For informed him, but Captur Branden stater be put but little further im what was told him, that the Aborigines were "ram Sannges capable of cannitalion and that "if any Foreigners had

грану

fallen

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