about the state of affairs in Pawsia, mid-Formosa. I hope the following notes may prove of interest to your readers. I know Pawsia well—as well as if not better than Z know Taiwanfu. The name is Pawlisia (A SH jtL) or Pawsia, Ie lies three days journey north-east from Kagi, or two days east from Changhua, Tt is composed of an enormous round basin. The sides of the basin are formed of lofty mountains, Its bottom is for the most part a level vlain—three to four miles in diameter. The encircling mountains in all places except one (vi:., where the old Chinese road entered)' are infested by head-hunting savages. Under the el Chinese regime an annual average of at least forty villagers or soldiers were killed by these savages, In this respect matters are at present little if anything better than they were. The old Chinese road approaches this basin from the south-west, and this is the only safe way which to enter. Last winter the Japanese made a new road in from Changhua and Taiwanfu, but it is a most dangerous way as both Japanese and natives know to their cost. Not a few have lost their heads travelling by this As a rule only two classes of foreigners visit Pawsia—camphor mer chants and missionaries of the English Presbyterian Church. In this basin the inhabitants are for the most part civilised aborigines (sok-hoon) who to this day retain their own language. There is one small town called a "city" because it is surrounded by a nud wall, and of course is the seat of government for the region. Both in the "city" and at the base of the mountains there is a small sprinkling of Hakkas.
FEAR OF THE JAPANESE, A few months ago when I visited Pawsia one thing above all others struck me as being different from the rest of Formosa (Lam here referring only to Formosa from the Taikah river southwards). Up till the occupation of Formosa by the Japanese wherever I went from Taikah in the north to Pangliau in the south I have been treated with the greatest of Chinese kindness and courtesy. I have been received in to their houses without the slightest suspicion of fear either on their part or mine. I would like to emphasise this fact because if the Chinese of Formosa deserve the name "brigands," *robbers," banditti," "'uncivilized," I say emphatically it is the result of Japanese maladministration. After the advent of the Japanese what a difference! I enter a village. The children sight me—a foreigner—and run helter-skelter howling to their mothers and the moment their mothers see me, they, too, in turn flee as fast as their bound feet will carry them, shouting all the time, 'Run the Japanese have come.' Invariably it takes a little time to quiet and assure them I am no ese. But when once thus assured then the old kindness and courtesy are
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