The Archive · 1928

The Fascination of a Trip to Formosa

How a Resident of Shanghai Can Reach Warmth and Beauty in the Winter at Small Expenditure To get a fortnight's holiday in harbour of Formosa, Tamsui first winter with an odd week-end having silted up and become imtacked on to it was rather a penetrable to all big shipping and problem to me. I was short of now Takow is in the process of cash just then, so Hongkong would doing the same. be too exper I simply longed Keelung is on the rainy side of for warmth and sunshine, so Japan the hills and Tathokoo on the other, wouldn't do, 0 it should not be depressing to Tt seemed to me that Providence find Keelung shrouded in soft grey offered a helping hand when wisps of misty rain. Nevertheless it found that an O.S.K, steamer left is pleasant to sit in the train and for Formosa on the day my leave twist one's way through the moun-commenced and was due back in 17 tains to the warm sunshine and ays' time, and when I teand that, Dive skies of Tatholeo, first-class single fare to Takow, the most southern port in Formosa The latter town seems to lo on was only $57 and the return 2 absolutely flat ground but the pro-similar amount in yen, I didn't gressive energy of the Japanese is, hesitate, but took almost the last irked by the up-to-date available berth on a cargo-boat machinery, well Kept rads and which carried about 16 first class huge costly buildings, the most in-passengers, I set off on what was teresting of which is the museum for mo entirely a voyage of where there are specimens of every= discovery, for no one I knew could thing to be found in the island; its tell me anything about the place to minerals, its birds animals which I was going.

only knew should find a foreign style hotel at Taihokco a few miles inland from the northern port of Keelung and that, others should have to adapt myself to the hotels of the country. stuffed, its vegetation natural and ted. There are life size models of its wild tribes and their dwellings together with specimens of their queer handi-crafts, which many go to enhance the fascination of the shops

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