Identifier: countriesofworld04brow (find matches)
Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eside in Banka, though the foreign traders stronghold is at Tamsui, and they have found it necessary to establish a subsidiary settlement about a mile from Banka, where they have their hongs—that is,combined dwelling-house and offices—and godowns, or warehouses, in which tea and camphor are stored, ready to be sent off in cargo boats, for shipment to Tamsui. Kelung is the most northerly of the treaty or open ports. It is, however, small, but suitable for ship-ping the bituminous steaming coal taken from the neighbouring pits.* * Morrison : Geographical Magazine, October, November, and December, 1877. See also Gordon : Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1819 ; Consular Reports; and rickering : Messenger of Presbyt. Church of England, 1878. 801 CHAPTER XVIII. The Japanese Empire: The Aino Country. Formosa, though considered, in accordance with Chinese policy, an integral part of the Celestial Empire, is in reality a mere colony of it, the aborigines of which ar.- a Malay
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View of Ta-kau-kan, on the west coast of Formosa. race, who doubtless arc themselves only colonist conquerors of an older date. It has,therefore, been considered more convenient to treat it as a separate island, and not merely as one of the prefectures of the great country which we shall soon have to visit. Rut even in Formosa we come upon traces of the Japanese, a race not so numerous, but in many respects more enterprising, and, from a European point of view,more interesting than even the Chinese, whose rivals they are likely, in time, to become.We have already spoken of the old Japanese settlement in Formosa, but there are evidences that long before the subjects of the Mikado and Tycoon formally sate themselves g02 TIIE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. down on the Isla Formosa adventurous or unfortunate wanderers of their naticu had reached thus far south; for the little island of Samasana, lying off the eastern shore of this island, is peopled by a race of Japanese origin, allied to the Loochooa

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