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Anderson, Mrs. James

Anderson, Mrs. Joseph Bailey, Mrs. Benham, Miss E.

Boyd, Mrs.

Broadbent, Mrs.

Brown, Mrs.

Brown, Miss

Bushmann, Mrs.

Cappon, Miss E. M. Carling, Miss Carrall, Mrs. Carvalho, Mrs. C. C. Cass, Mrs. Francis Creagh, Mrs.

Cross, Mrs.

Duncan, Miss A.

Dunne, Mrs. J. J.

Duryee, Miss L. N.

Edwards, Mrs. St. J. H.

England, Mrs.

Eldridge, Mrs. Fagg, Mrs. J. G.

Fahmy, Mrs. A.

Farrow, Mrs. Gardner, Mrs.

Graham, Miss L.

Green, Miss F.

Hadley, Mrs.

AMOY FORMOSA

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Hauenstien, Mrs.

Hewett, Mrs.

Horne, Miss

Howie, Mrs. J. M. Hunter, Mrs. Hutchison, Mrs. Jensen, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, Miss J. M. Johnstone, Miss J. Joseland, Mrs. F. P. Kemper, Miss Kip, Mrs. L. W. Kliene, Mrs. Lecky, Miss H.

Lührss, Mrs.

MacGowan, Mrs. J. MacGowan, Miss M. McGregor, Miss M. B. Maclagan, Miss E. Maclagan, Miss G. J. Malcampo, Mrs. Marcal, Mrs. Marcal, Miss Miller, Miss (. Morrison, Miss M. C. Nicholls, Mrs. Noodt, Mrs.

Orr, Mrs.

Otte, Mrs. J. A. Parslow, Miss Pitcher, Mrs. Poletti, Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Ramsay, Miss L. Remedios, Mrs. C. C. Remedios, Mrs. E. G. Ross, Mrs. R. M. Sandeman, Mrs. E. T. Saunders, Mrs. Saunders, Miss

Scheffler, Miss

Schwemma, Miss

Simões, Mrs.

Suenson, Mrs.

Sullivan, Mrs. Talmage, Mrs.

Talmage, Miss K. M. Talmage, Miss M. E. Thompson, Mrs. H. Thomsen, Mrs. Van Dyck, Mrs. A. S. Williamson, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Woodley, Miss Zwemer, Miss N.

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FORMOSA

This island, one of the largest in Asia, is situated between latitude 22 and 26 degrees N., and longitude 120 and 122 degrees E., and is separated from the coast of Fukien, China, by a channel about one hundred miles in width. Its name Formosa. signifying "beautiful island," was conferred by the Portuguese, the first Europeans to visit it, but it is called Taiwan (Great Bay) by the Chinese, to whom it has belonged since 1661. It is said that the Japanese endeavoured to form a colony in the island in 1620, but large numbers of Chinese were settled there prior to that date. The Dutch arrived in 1634, and founded several settlements, and traces of their occupation are still to be found in the island, but they were compelled in 1661 to retire by the Chinese pirate chief Koxinga, who then assumed the sovereignty of western Formosa. His grandson and successor, however, was induced, twenty-two years later, to resign the crown to the Emperor of China. Formosa is about 210 miles in length, and from 60 to 70 miles broad in the widest part, with a circumference of some 450 miles. It is intersected from north to south by a range of mountains, which forms a kind of back- bone to the island, the loftiest peak of which, Mount Sylvia, is 11,300 feet high. On the western side of this range the slope is more gradual than on the eastern side, and broken by fertile valleys which lose themselves in the large undulating plain on which the Chinese are settled. The whole of the territory east of the dividing chain is peopled by an aboriginal race who acknowledge no allegiance to the Chinese Government and make frequent raids on the outlying Chinese settlements. They are a savage and warlike people, allied to the Malays and Polynesians, and live principally by the chase. The Chinese hold the aborigines in much dread on account of their ferocity, but of late years they have steadily continued their encroachments on the eastern coast, keeping he natives at bay by the aid of Hakka settlers, a hardy race, who in Formosa go by the

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