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PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN

KUMAMOTO

WOMEN'S UNION MISSIONARY

Rev. W. H. Clark and wife

SASEBO

Rev. C. K. Dozier and wife

UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST

TOKYO

Rev. A. T. Howard, D.D., and wife Rev. Joseph Cosand and wife Rev. F. B. Shively and wife

UNIVERSALIST MISSION

SHIZUOKA

Rev. N. L. Lobdell

TOKYO

Miss C. A. Osborn, 50, Oimatsu-cho, Kow-

shikana

Miss M. A. Hathaway

do.

WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE

UNION U.S.A.

TOKYO

Miss Florence E. Strout

SOCIETY

YOKOHAMA

Miss J. N. Crosby,

212, Bluff

Miss M. E. Tracy

do.

Miss C. D. Loomis, M.A., do.

Miss S. A. Pratt, (absent) do. Miss Clara Almerd

Miss Florence Wells

Y.M.C.A. (INTERNATIONAL COM- MITTEE OF JAPAN) TOKYO

G. M. Fisher and wife

DALNY

C. V. Hibbard and wife (absent)

KYOTO G. A. Phelps and wife (absent)

OSAKA

G. Gleason and wife

NAGASAKI

Rev. J. Merle Davis and wife

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

TOKYO

Miss C. A. McDonald Miss Stella Fisher

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. It is a prolongation of the Japanese and Loochoo Archipelagoes, and in 1895 was incorporated in the Jap- anese empire. Its name Formosa, signifying "beautiful island," was conferred by the Portuguese, the first Europeans to visit it, but it was called Taiwan (Great Bay) by the Chinese, to whom it belonged from 1661 to 1894. 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 inducerl, twenty-two years later, to resign the crown to the Emperor of China. By the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which terminated the war between China and Japan in 1895, the island was ceded to Japan as one of the conditions of peace, and on the 1st June, 1895, the formal surrender was made, the ceremony taking place on board ship outside Keelung. The resident Chinese officials, however, declared a republic, and offered resistance, and it was not until the end of October that the opposing forces were completely overcome, the last stand being made in the south by Liu Yung-fu, the Black Flag General, of Tonkin notoriety. Takow was bombarded and captured on 15th October, and Anping was peacefully occupied on the 21st of the same month, Liu Yung-fu having taken refuge in flight.

Formosa is about 260 miles in length, and from 60 to 70 miles broad in the widest part. It is intersected from north to south by a range of mountains, which forms a