FORMOSA, The Osaka Asahi Shimbw thus describes visit paid to the savages of Formosa by Mr. Uyeno Senichi, secretary of the Tupanese Consulate ut Foochow:—Mr. Uyeno, having Innded at Daikwa-kwan, letter to the Chief, in which he said; 'I, a subject of the Western Island Empire, having admired your powerful and fearless spirit, have come to present nuyself before you. I humbly ask you to allow me tomevt you by the river side, where we may sit on the sft sands close by the pellucid water. If we can meet und eonseree, I think we shall beth derive ples sure fromthe event." The Chief favoured the idea, and appointed the following day as the time, the place to be us suggested by Mr. Uyeno. The visitor, possibly from feeling of modesty, had notdesiderated the presence of the Chieftainess, but her august husband brought her along, with suite of about hundred persons. We do not doubt that Mr. Uyeno received this crowd with the same easy self-possession that may have characterised his appearance on the platform at the Imperial University to receive hie diplom". The Chief, we are told, salute ed the stranger by patting the Chief's breast with that potentate's hands; Mr. Tyeno mare his salutations in the Japanese fashion and offered a few presents. The barbarian ruler had thoughtfully ordered a lunch basket to be packed; this was brought forward bya heathen menial, and opened, and the representative Western Leland Empire was wited tu join the lnstsious comple in their repast eral cups of wine wera drunk during and after the meal, It does not appear that the Iveal press were hidden to the ceremony; $9 we may probably assume that Mr. Uyeno himself took notes on the occasion; and we must state in pure justice to him that while describing the effect of the liquor upon his host, he declares himself to-have been gone in intoxien Unlike many grent explorers Mr, Uyeno is not merely truthfal; ho la also mimgnanimous, During the remainder of the audience the Chief reviled the Chinese bitterly. They were pigtailed "fellows"; they were far less refined than his own peuple, and exceedingly im= polite; therefore he had not hesitated to turn them away when they came into his ferrite For Mr. Uyeno, however, he professed quite an attachment, and pressed him warmly to spend one night at the Palace. But the Japanese explorer had to catch a train, or peradventure he was unused to the ways of palaces; at any rate he excused hiunself and, withdrew, We shall be glad to hear of Me. Uyeno again.
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